Sharmin Hossain is a Jackson Heights, Queens bred queer Bangladeshi hard femme henna tattoo artist and political educator. As the Director of the Bangladeshi Historical Memory Project, Sharmin has cultivated a liberatory initiative documenting the extensive history of Bangladeshi people through political theatre and digital archiving. For the past five years, Sharmin has been on the core organizing team of East Coast Solidarity Summer, a radical political education camp for Desi youth in the East Coast. A graduate from CUNY Hunter College, Sharmin is also a bilingual teaching artist with the Queens Museum. Sharmin is dedicated to liberation pedagogy grounded in dismantling casteism, Islamophobia and white supremacy.