Sfarda L GülA writer and artist since her early childhood brought up in a police state, Sfarda L. Gül's (alias) creative focus hones in on the macabre and introspective, the grotesque and juxtaposing-a deconstruction of social ideology and human suffering influeced by her upbringing, queerness, historically persecuted mixed ethnicity, and dark-sided emotional disposition. When not engaging in art, Sfarda is enthralled in ethnography, linguistics, filmmaking, and social activism aiding to uplift ethnic and queer minorities of her native Eastern Europe, SWANA, and Central Asia. She is the curator of independent publication Lacrimosity and Righteous Rage Press which hosts a Substack newsletter, and a YouTube video essayist at Anarchy on Page. Sfarda is the May 2024 debut author of NON SERVIAM, first of THE HYPOSTASIS OF DISSENT duology. EARTH HAGIOGRAPHY, a poetry collection centred around indigeneity and colonial pain, will be published in November of 2024. NON OMNIS MORIAR, the second and final installment in THE HYPOSTASIS OF DISSENT duology, is slated for an April 2025 publication. SPOILS OF FAMINE, a flashfiction retelling of a Pontian folk tale centering indigenous culture and community care, was published in the 2023 Issue 3 of The Globe Review. Researcher at The Outland Magazine, a literary zine amplifying Asian voices. Critic of Orientalism in media. Mad-MEDical scientist by day. Cinephile, may or may not be a Silent Hill wanderer. Read More Read Less