Laiba Raja is an artist, poet, and performer based in London. Her work examines how poetry traditions inform women’s resistance poetics in Pakistan, focusing on their engagement with the Indo-Persian form of the ghazal. She weaves texts from her predecessors into her writing, creating a dialogue between intergenerational voices. Since 2019, she has worked closely with the women’s rights group Aurat March in Pakistan, creating socially engaged art and contributing to social media campaigns, most notably the 2022 manifesto, Re-Imagining Justice. She graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2022. She is currently doing her Masters from the Royal College of Art in Visual Communication Design 2025.