Tuckahoe NY Pride

Fawzia Mirza is a Canadian writer, actor, and filmmaker known for centering queer Muslim stories with humor, tenderness, and political clarity. As a lesbian Muslim, she has used performance and screen storytelling to challenge stereotypes about faith, gender, and sexuality, creating space for layered identities often erased in mainstream media. Mirza gained attention through her one-woman show and web/TV work that foregrounds South Asian and Muslim diasporic experience, then expanded into film, writing and directing projects that explore family, belonging, and love. Her work advocates visibility while insisting that queer Muslim lives are diverse, ordinary, and worthy of joy.