Fathima Cader is a writer, a lawyer, and sometimes a professor.
Her writing has has appeared in Guernica, The New Inquiry, The Funambulist, and elsewhere. She has served as a Visiting Professor at the City University of New York and at Osgoode Hall Law School.
She was raised in Pottuvil, Aylesbury, and Jeddah. These days, she is (mostly) based in Toronto. Place is her favourite obsession.
She is writing a novel and a collection of creative non-fiction essays.
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Book Chapters
Essays and Reviews
- "Constellations of Coresistance: Reflections on Tamil and Palestinian Solidarity from Turtle Island," TWAIL Review, 2024, co-authored with Sujith Xavier.
- "Sri Lanka's multiple crises just came to a head," Washington Post, 2022, co-authored with Zachariah Mampilly.
- "Elegy," Guernica, 2021.
- "No More Death Work," The Funambulist, 2021.
- "Our Grievous Work," Guernica, 2020.
- "Stranger Kinships," Adi, 2020.
- "In Memory's Wake: Remembering A Sivanandan," Verso Books, 2019.
- "A Rising Tide: Fighting Tamil Refugee Detention in Canada," Rungh, 2018.
- "Terror's Lawfare," The New Inquiry, 2017.
- "Labor of Faith: Migrant Work and Exploitation in Makkah," The Funambulist, 2017.
- "Why Humanizing Tamil Refugees Won't Solve the World's Migration Problems," The FADER, 2016.
- "The View from Madinah," Hazlitt, 2016.
- "A Question of Survival," Warscapes, 2015.
- "Tamil, tiger, terrorist? Anti-migrant hysteria and the criminalisation of asylum seekers," Briarpatch, 2011.
Poetry
Peer-Reviewed Academic
Select Academic Appointments
- 2014-ongoing: Sessional Instructor, University of Windsor, Faculty of Law.
- 2020: Visiting Professor/McMurtry Fellow, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University.
- 2019: Visiting Professor, Beyond Identity Program, Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, City College of New York, City University of New York.
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