Shakila’s activism is as a result of personal experiences of adversity while growing up in the UK. She places her activism much like her art, creativity and resistance against authority, at the heart of her activism. She is an artist by background, has often, together with others mobilised with groups and individuals to voice dissent and creative ownership of the struggles waged.

https://emmahumphreys.org/2018/05/07/shakila-maan-individual-award-winner-2016/

https://www.westminsterextra.co.uk/article/right-angles

https://www.bl.uk/press-releases/2020/september/british-library-exhibition-opening-next-month-shows-the-fight-for-womens-rights-is-unfinished-business

http://www.venisonmagazine.com/jagdeep-raina.html

https://www.npg.org.uk/visit/inspiring-people-across-the-uk/citizen-uk/citizen-uk-ealing-rises-up/outdoor-display

https://wargeyskasaxafi.wordpress.com/2019/11/02/somaliland-jasmin-osmans-escape/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS_1sF5KU2U

https://ms.b-ok.cc/book/18198032/40e70b

https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/blasphemy-and-freedom/

https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/british-library-unfinished-business-london-womens-rights-a4572183.html

https://www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2009/04/british-asians-southall-maan

https://www.fourcornersbooks.co.uk/articles/southall-black-sisters-banners-of-resistance/

https://londonmasalaandchips.blogspot.com/2009/04/southall-story.html

https://www.mail-archive.com/sacw@insaf.net/msg00246.html

2002 DNAsia: MAPPING THE FUTURE OF SOUTH ASIAN ARTS IN THE UK

Watermans Arts Centre

Delegate/Featured Filmmaker, Focus on British Asian Cinema (for ‘A Quiet Desperation’).

2002 DANCE ON CAMERA DEBATE: HOW DOES DANCE ON SCREEN MOVE DANCERS?

Constellation Screen Change Dance Festival at the NFT

Panel Member.

2002 BOLLYWOOD MADNESS

The Cobden Club

Debate – “There is No Madness in Bollywood”.

2001 MIGRANT CINEMA: NEW CULTURAL SPACE IN EUROPE; ASIAN POLITICS OF BLACK CINEMA IN EUROPE

The British Academy/The Ankara International Film Festival

Panel Member and Featured Filmmaker (for A THOUSAND BORROWED EYES).

2000 FUNDRAISING THE FEATURE

BAFTA

Panel Member.

1997 A DIVERSE HERITAGE

Symposium, European Year Against Racism.

With Culture Secretary Chris Smith at the Institute of Education.

1997 FROM THE MARGINS TO THE CENTRE – ETHNIC MINORITY WOMEN IN THE EUROPEAN MEDIA (Rotterdam)

Symposium, European Year Against Racism.

1995 WIDENING THE FRAME – POLITICS OF RACE AND ART

Race in Debate at the ICA

Seminar with Jim Pines.