Aqdas Aftab is a nonbinary writer and researcher from Islamabad. Some of their creative work can be found in Strange Horizons, the Rumpus, Transcendent 4: The Year’s Best Speculative Transgender Fiction, and The World that Belongs to Us: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from South Asia. Aqdas is currently working on an academic monograph on decolonial trans interiority.