Sahibzada Mayed
Trauma-Informed Researcher, Abolitionist, Pause & Effect
Mayed is a design researcher and creative strategist. They bring a critically-informed approach to community-centered design that seeks to advance culturally thriving, regenerative, and sustainably empowering outcomes. Inside and out, Mayed is an abolitionist at heart. She seeks to articulate the ways in which carceral logics and discourses are reproduced in our lives, and dreams of the ways in which we can liberate ourselves and reclaim the freedom to define our own realities. Mayed's work embodies the radical critique needed to disrupt oppressive systems and the speculative dreaming that is necessary to imagine new worlds.
Rosenverse talks by Sahibzada:
" Research is an ongoing process; transferring skills to others sustains impact beyond the researcher’s involvement. "
Industry junctures: Paths forwards for UXR and the critical decisions that get us there [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series]
October 2, 2024
" Decentralizing power is really important because power impacts how we can practice care and collaborate. "
Cultivating Design Ecologies of Care, Community, and Collaboration
October 4, 2023
" The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situation we seek to escape but the piece of the oppressor that lives in all of us - Audre Lorde. "
The Politics of Radical Research: A Manifesto
March 27, 2023
