Author & Writer
BOLD ideas for BIG changes
I write with intent. I understand diversity. I value social impact. I champion inclusion.
Tasneem Chopra OAM
Tasneem Chopra OAM is a prolific writer and author whose work has been published widely online, in journals and anthologies and in print – in Australia and overseas.
She writes on topics impacting current affairs and politics, identity and belonging, gender equity, human rights and minorities. Tasneem has written for and featured in SBS Voices, ABC News, Bendigo Advertiser, The Mandarin, Herald Sun and Sydney Morning Herald and others.
She has contributed her insights and experiences to academic research, biography anthologies, public issues and narrative ventures.
Areas of Expertise
Current Affairs & Politics
Gender Based Violence
Intersectionality
Gender Equity and Impact
Multiculturalism
Diversity & Inclusion
Identity & Belonging
Anti-Racism
Community Engagement
Faith and Religion
Inclusive Leadership, Diversity and Implicit Bias
Media Representation
Wellbeing & Resilience
Social Cohesion
Women of Colour Representation
Tasneem’s Experience
New Book! Muslim Women and Agency: an Australian Context – 2021
Editors: Ghena Krayem and Susan Carland
Muslim women’s freedom, or assumed lack thereof, has long been a Western obsession. Almost never do we ask, what does agency look like to Muslim women? Who or what do they think constrains them, and how do they challenge that? Focussing on the little-researched area of the Australian Muslim community, this book brings together for the first time diverse accounts from Australian Muslim researchers, leaders, and community workers to interrogate how Muslim women understand, experience, and fight for agency. Academic and activist, personal and political, this ground-breaking book features the people at the centre of the debate.
Contributors are Feda Abdo, Amira Aftab, Mahsheed Ansari, Fadi Baghdadi, Susan Carland, Tasneem Chopra, Mehreen Faruqi, Derya Iner, Balawyn Jones, Souha Korbatieh, Ghena Krayem, Mehal Krayem and Ayah Wehbe
Human Rights, Out of Sight: The Americanisation of Detainees in Australian Detention” in “The New Colonialism: the American Model of Human Rights (2019)
Beyond Burqas, Bombs and Bogeymen: Australian Muslims and the Media. Griffith Journal of Law and Human Dignity (2015)
Beyond Burqas, Bombs and Bogeymen: Australian Muslims and the Media. Griffith Journal of Law and Human Dignity (2015)
How I Happened.
‘Coming of Age – Growing Up Muslim in Australia (2014)
Foreword in Modest Street Fashion
In the Media
As a writer and commentator, Tasneem has been commissioned and written opinion pieces for a range of publications. She has also been interviewed in print, radio, television and online.
Why Fraser Anning is wrong about Muslim Australians
SBS Voices
Meet the Hijabistas
Sydney Morning Herald
Mod Markit runway: ‘Here is a show where everyone looks like me’
The Guardian
Why Gordon Ramsay is no match
for my Aunties
SBS Voices
Being a good ally is to not
make everything about you, Karen
SBS Voices
Women of colour don’t lack agency
or capability, we lack opportunity
SBS Voices
Patriot shame: new citizens deserve
respect, not contempt
The Guardian
Would growing up in Bendigo have been
different with a mosque?
The Guardian