{"id":829,"date":"2026-03-20T02:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T10:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/?page_id=829"},"modified":"2026-04-29T11:38:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:38:33","slug":"asha-salim","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/asha-salim\/","title":{"rendered":"Asha Salim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section alignfull alignfull getwid-section-content-custom-width\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__wrapper getwid-padding-left-medium getwid-padding-right-medium\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__inner-wrapper\" style=\"max-width:1140px\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__background-holder\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__background\"><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__foreground\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__content\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__inner-content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-2-columns are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Asha Salim<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-advanced-heading\" style=\"margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-advanced-heading__content\">She\/Her<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Writer and Scholar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asha\u00a0Salim is a poet, scholar, and writer who examines the intersections of diasporic poetics, memory, and archival ethics. Her work explores how Black writers and artists use literature and visual art to challenge official histories and to restore the textures of black diasporic life and identity. A Fulbright and Zegna Founder\u2019s Scholar, she holds an MFA from Temple University. Her writing has appeared in\u00a0<em>Africa e Mediterraneo<\/em>,\u00a0<em>C41 Magazine<\/em>, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-advanced-spacer\" style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/presenters\/\" style=\"color:#000000\">BACK<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2026\/01\/dt7zS29hzyyK6WCg-FUEji9nHoLF3EZajx1OVurIARw-1920x1372.jpeg\" alt=\"Asha Salim\" class=\"wp-image-723\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;object-fit:cover\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-829","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"qubely_landscape":false,"qubely_portrait":false,"qubely_thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"cm","author_link":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/author\/cherylmann\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/829\/revisions\/1638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}