Aisha Mirza is an artist, writer and activist who’s expansive work looks at issues around body hair, race, queerness and mental health. Her short film Fuck Me or Destroy Me follows the striking Harnaam Kaur as she walks around the streets of London.

Words about the short-film by creator and directer Aisha Mirza  “I suppose at the heart of this film is an exploration of western body hair norms – how strange and oppressive they are, particularly for queer and trans people of colour whose bodies are already targeted, examined and laid thick with expectation from so many places. I am interested in how we all find moments of agency in this mess and in the false liberation of Harnaam Kaur. How she works so hard to reject and restructure societal oppression, and is defined by her otherness. How her extraordinary personhood is so informed by something that never should have been extraordinary. How her story is imagined for the white gaze. How she feels when everyone is looking. How she feels when no-one is looking. How she looks back.”

Watch the  video here Fuck Me or Destroy Me feat Harnaam Kaur as unfortunately I could not embed the video.