Sadia Khatri (Urdu: سعدیہ کھتری) is a Pakistani writer, photographer[1] and feminist based in Karachi.
[1] In 2011, Khatri took photographs of children who spend most of their time living by the roadside in commercial areas of Karachi.
[7] In her autobiographical essay "Fear and the City," which received a special citation in the recently announced Zeenat Haroon Rashid Writing Prize for Women, Khatri narrates her liberation through travel and struggle reclaiming public spaces in her hometown of Karachi, She ends her essay with her experience of a recent hate assault.
[16][17][18][19] The collective was born out of the daily frustrations of middle- and upper-class women experience who are forced to stay in safe locations and cannot go out alone without good reason.
[20] This led Khatri to think about the violence she had experienced at home, in private spaces, which was far greater than anything she had been subjected to on the streets.