Daring Desis
Daring Desis is a storytelling platform, a community of celebrated pioneering global immigrant desi women who show emerging generations what is possible. If you can see it, you can be it.
Daring Desis pulls focus to women from the South Asian subcontinent diaspora who have added to a global conversation in their fields; women who will represent a world of possibilities for the millions of young Desi girls searching for people like them, doing things they dream of.
Daring Desis shows them that anything is possible, that a little brown immigrant girl in Ontario can one day be Miss Marvel; that a queer, minority woman from Karachi can become world renowned astrophysicist, that a young woman from an engineering college in Chandigarh can go on to be a mission specialist on a NASA space shuttle.
It is vital for girls and women to see themselves represented on the page, see women who have balanced being Desi with all the complications that arise from existing in a third culture. So many of us are living in this unique confluence of language, culture and systems that we have adapted to survive in – why should we not thrive in it? Who can we look up to? Who are the women who have shared a similar experience, and risen to great heights?
There are so many Desi women who have dared to challenge cultural stereotypes, and have fought against the disadvantages of being a woman of colour in many different fields., and yet there are so few places to read about them, to get to know them, to learn from them.
Daring Desis will be that place.