Collaging antiquities from the museum's "Arts of the Islamic World" collection, Baseera Khan highlights how their body exceeds an institutional framing of their histories.
If the alternative ways of understanding history and the globe put forth in black and Indigenous studies were given due attention, why would there be a need for whiteness studies?
Baseera Khan’s first solo exhibition in New York, “iamuslima,” was titled after a term, “Muslima,” that she had Nike stitch on a pair of sneakers to protest the company’s refusal to allow the word “Is…