Suhaiymah Manzoor Khan

Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan is a British spoken word poet, writer and speaker, known for her poem "This Is Not a Humanising Poem" and writing about life as a Muslim woman in England on her site, The Brown Hijabi.

Early life Khan was born in Bradford to second-generation British-Pakistani parents, and raised in Leeds.

Work Manzoor-Khan has contributed to and written for several news outlets, including The Independent, The book focused on their experiences being women of colour at the University of Cambridge; the title refers to FLY, the university's network for women and non-binary people of colour.

In February 2019, Manzoor-Khan appeared in a video for Middle East Eye titled "Citizenship can be weaponised" in which she addresses the potential repercussions of the government decision to revoke Shamima Begum's British citizenship.

TEDx Talks In 2017, Manzoor-Khan was a speaker at the TEDxYouth@Brum event in Birmingham where she performed a poem titled "Funeral of the Authentic Muslim Woman", in which she rejects the idea "that there is only one way to be a Muslim woman," highlighting the complexities and contradictions that exist within everyone, including Muslim women.