In the basement is a poem I wrote about a specific site on Habib University campus in the course TEXT + IMAGE: Experimental Writing in the Arts, taught by Zahra Malkani in Spring 2018.
The poem questions the nature of Habib University's security infrastructure and what it says about the campus spaces, who gets to use it and how, talking about a specific space that stands in juxtaposition to the rest of the heavily militarized, surveilled campus:
the carpenter's corner in the basement.
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