Kami Chouhdry

Activist & Actress

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Kami Chouhdry is the first Pakistani trans person to rise to prominence as a fashion model. Chouhdry is also an actress and LGBTQ rights activist. She has a bachelor's degree in Business Studies. Among the trans communities in Pakistan, Kami Chouhdry belongs to the Khawaja Sira community.

On the Pakistani Independence Day of 2017, Sid posed on a rooftop in Karachi while holding up the Pakistani flag. She has given a lecture on transphobia and misogyny in the Karachi Literature Festival in London. Chouhdry is a board member of this non-profit organisation called 'Street to School', which teaches sex-ed and cultural diversity to schoolchildren. She is the program coordinator of the Aks International Minorities Festival in Copenhagen, Denmark.

In 2017, Chouhdry made her acting debut in the short film "Rani" as a transgender toy seller who makes her living selling the items on the streets of Karachi. Produced by GrayScale and Rizvilia Productions, the film is directed by Hammad Rizvi. The Daily Pakistan called Chouhdry performance " a force of nature in it”. She was also cast in a play titled 'Dil e Nadan', a play based on a trans person and their relationship with society.

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