Sarah Suhail
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539 B Wilson hall Tempe, AZ 85282
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Mail code: 4308Campus: Tempe
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Sarah Suhail is a queer feminist teacher, organizer, human rights lawyer, and activist, focusing mainly on land, labor, women, and queer rights.
Sarah started her work as a movement lawyer in Lahore, Pakistan, in 2008, working with land and water rights movements in Southern Punjab, with indigenous fisher folk of the southern Indus, farmers within the peasant movement in Punjab, and those working to preserve the use of lands held in common; Hari women who escaped bonded labor in Sindh and Khawaja Sira and trans and queer communities struggling to survive the gender regime in Lahore. She is also an advocate of the Lahore High Court and works as a free-lance advocate for refugees in the global north.
Along with her activist and research work, she has taught at the undergraduate level since 2008 in different departments across multiple universities in Lahore and some in the U.S.
PhD and MA Women & Gender Studies, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Bachelor of Law (LLB), University of London (External), London, UK & Lahore, Pakistan
Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) in Business and Economics, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Her research lies at the intersection of caste, class, gender, religion, and location in Pakistan. She focuses on the life stories of dalit women who have escaped bonded labor in Sindh, describing their conditions of carceral work and their strategies and tools of escape. Alongside the stories of Free/d women are those of Khawaja Sira Gurus from Punjab, describing their lives under the complex gender regime that governs life in Punjab.
Her work is part of a larger project that explores the tools and strategies of resistance used by people relegated to the margins of society by the conception of their womanness as a loss and their religious, caste, and class-based status. It’s an attempt to locate from the grassroots how minoritization, exclusion, and disposability of certain people lies at the heart of the Pakistani Nationalist project, not unlike the competing majoritarian nationalisms in India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar with their distinctive histories and attendant violent expressions.
Courses
2026 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| JUS 432 | Racial Justice |
| JUS 432 | Racial Justice |
| JUS 214 | The Pursuit of Justice |
| JUS 425 | Race, Gender, and Justice |
| JUS 425 | Race, Gender, and Justice |
| JUS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| JUS 105 | Intro to Justice Studies |
2025 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| JUS 105 | Intro to Justice Studies |
| JUS 432 | Racial Justice |
| JUS 432 | Racial Justice |
| JUS 352 | Global Politics of HumanRights |
| JUS 352 | Global Politics of HumanRights |
| JUS 308 | Courts and Society |
| JUS 308 | Courts and Society |
2025 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| JUS 432 | Racial Justice |
| JUS 432 | Racial Justice |
| JUS 435 | Cinema and Justice |
| JUS 435 | Cinema and Justice |
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| JUS 790 | Reading and Conference |
| JUS 432 | Racial Justice |
| JUS 432 | Racial Justice |
| JUS 214 | The Pursuit of Justice |
| JUS 422 | Women, Law, and Social Control |
| JUS 425 | Race, Gender, and Justice |
| JUS 425 | Race, Gender, and Justice |
| JUS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| JUS 432 | Racial Justice |
| JUS 432 | Racial Justice |
| JUS 352 | Global Politics of HumanRights |
| JUS 352 | Global Politics of HumanRights |
| JUS 308 | Courts and Society |
| JUS 308 | Courts and Society |
| JUS 560 | Women, Law, and Social Control |
2024 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| JUS 435 | Cinema and Justice |
| JUS 435 | Cinema and Justice |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| JUS 105 | Intro to Justice Studies |
| JUS 303 | Justice Theory |
| JUS 305 | Principles of Justice Studies |
| JUS 321 | Wealth Distribution & Poverty |
| SST 493 | Honors Thesis |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| JUS 432 | Racial Justice |
| JUS 305 | Principles of Justice Studies |
| JUS 432 | Racial Justice |
| JUS 432 | Racial Justice |
| JUS 352 | Global Politics of HumanRights |