“I think the best and worst thing about the future is that it's unknown, so you can kind of decide what your relationship with the future is. Whatever is going to happen, is going to happen; you can decide to be optimistic or pessimistic about it. So I feel there is real value in imagining potential futures that are better than anything realistic.” Sanya Dosani (@saninamillion) is a Brooklyn-based writer, filmmaker, and visual artist exploring the sublime comedy and tragedy at the intersection of South Asian history and culture, Islamic philosophy and folklore, American midwestern sensibilities, and queer identity and aesthetics. Her work has appeared on @netflix, @aljazeera, @fullfrontalsamb and in the @nytimes. The echoes of the 1947 British-administered partition of India still reverberate throughout the subcontinent and South Asian diaspora. Painful memories of massacres, arson, and sexual violence are inflamed by present-day brutalities against Muslims under a powerful Hindu nationalist political party. Sometimes all one can do in the face of despair is be curious, imaginative, and playful – those are, at least, Dosani’s weapons of choice. In the “Intergalactic Hijrah” series, she repurposes archival photographs of panic-stricken Muslim refugees fleeing their homeland to create collages that reimagine one of the bloodiest upheavals in human history as a cosmic expedition to a better future. #muslimartist #muslimfuturism #intergalactic #hijrah #cosmic