Selected Works
Selected Speaking Engagements
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Rewriting My Story
Ted Talk
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Therapy in Context
Sanah Ahsan and Bayo Akomolafe
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Stolen Focus
Panel with Dr Gabor Mate
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Practice of Care & Freedom
Google Talk
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BBC Breakfast Interview
With Naga Munchetty
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bell hooks in memoriam
Panel discussion
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Anger, Activism & Healing
In conversation at The Conduit
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Young, British and Depressed
Channel 4 Dispatches
Selected Essays and Articles
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We're Being Told Devastating Lies About Mental Health
The Guardian
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Are women really getting more "mentally ill"?
The Guardian
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How badly racism is damaging children's mental health
Big Issue
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Allowing Our Hearts To Break: article for Too Little / Too Hard
tlth
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Imam Muhsin Hendricks
The heart of Islam through Imam Muhsin Hendricks
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The cost of living crisis risks becoming a suicide crisis
gal-dem
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If You’re Having Mental Health Struggles
Refinery 29
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Why Women Being Diagnosed With ADHD?
Refinery 29
Selected Poetry
eating is for tomorrow’s emergency
bathmagg
pink murmurations
bathmagg
to be held
Forward Prize
lullaby
The Poetry Society / Italian Translation
jummah
Wasafiri Queen Mary New Writing Prize
ramadan's greeting
Wasafiri Queen Mary New Writing Prize
stuck
The White Review Prize
jukebox throats
The London Magazine 2022
My Dua is Love / Sanah Ahsan - Live at Tongue Fu
Selected Events
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Uni of Cambridge
with Mary Jean Chan, Rachael Allen
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Brighton Festival: Giving Up Goodness
with anaiis, Camille Barton
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Beyond Villainy & Victimhood
with Lama Rod Owens
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Poetry in Motion
with Sean Hewitt, Momtaza Mehri
Selected Podcasts & Conversations
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The Artist and The Ethics
Sanah Ahsan, Nikita Gill, Anthony Anaxogorou
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Poetry Unbound
with Padraig O Tuama and Sasha Dugdale
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Using Poetry & Psychology To Liberate
What is this Behaviour Podcast
Sanah Ahsan talks about ‘coming out’, their experiences and what they'd tell a younger self.
For Childline:Selected Interviews
‘The Messiness of Our Aliveness’: A Conversation with Sanah Ahsan and Gargi Bhattacharyya
Wasafiri Magazine
Interview with Sanah Ahsan: Queer Muslim Poet – ‘I cannot be good until you say it’
Naz and Matt Foundation
Poetry News: Interview with Safia Elhillo and Sanah Ahsan
The Poetry Society
Selected Performance Poetry
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Spoken Word
Interlude: Moonlight (anaiis)
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My Dua is Love
Outspoken Prize Winner
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Decolonising Distress
BBC World Service
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Come As You Are
BBC 2’s The Way Out
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Commissioned piece
British Psychologist Society
