Sufi Rafat

Sufi Rafat is a non-binary trans masc Iranian and uninvited settler on the traditional territories of the Kwantlen First Nations, also known Surrey BC. Sufi is an Architectural Technologist and Masters of Architecture student, Programming Coordinator for MENA Film Festival, an emerging multi-disciplinary artist, and grassroots community organizer for their intersecting communities. Sufi hopes to synthesis their artistic explorations with their formative education to digest and dissolve their personal dilemmas, critiques, and wonders of the potentials of spatial and visual rejection of colonial and capitalistic societies inspired by queer theory, the abolition movement, and metaphysical spirituality. They hope to continue facilitate the bridging of the various creative and queer SWANA communities together  as a means of healing the siloing of their local diasporic communities.