Support artist Tasnim with basic living costs

Tasnim is a working-class activist-artist in need of your help to cover two months' basic living costs. Since her arrest during a protest last year she has struggled with PTSD; due to the drawn out nature of the criminal justice system her mental health has deteriorated, impacting her ability to work as a freelance artist. Although she has been making work, the state of our arts industry has meant that most of her efforts go unpaid / underpaid. We are therefore asking for your help, the support of her community to see her through the next few months as her court case continues to drag on.

On the 2nd of May 2024, Tasnim (she/they) was arrested in Peckham (along with over 40 other brave individuals) answering a call by organisers to stop a raid on refugees and asylum seekers being sent to Bibby Stockholm barge. Tasnim will go to court for her trial commencing 7 April 2025. In November, all asylum seekers being held in this same prison-like barge were released. Last year, we came together to help Tasnim get back on her feet after their arrest. Now, we’re fundraising to cover their basic living costs as they bring to life an upcoming project born from this experience. Your support will not only fuel their creative journey but also help them heal and share their powerful story. Every donation makes a difference—let’s stand with Tasnim!

To our brothers, sisters, and siblings, this Ramadan, extend your support to a Muslim artist and share in the blessings of your generosity.

About her show The Pigs are Coming: An urgent performance about protest, policing, and resistance, THE PIGS ARE COMING is born from Tasnim’s arrest in Peckham last May to explore a new, unsettling era in Britain.

An urgent performance featuring spoken word, movement, and projection in activist-artist Tasnim’s semi-autobiographical story of protest, policing, and resistance, born from her arrest in Peckham last May to explore a new, unsettling era in Britain.

Tasnim shared a work-in-progress on Tuesday 11 March at Camden People’s Theatre and seeks to develop it further to aid the movement against border violence and to raise awareness about the criminalization of protest.

Bio: Tasnim Siddiqa Amin (she/they) is a working-class Bangladeshi-British Muslim theatremaker, performer, and writer. Tasnim studied Politics, Philosophy, and History at St. Andrews and Birkbeck. Their work is rooted in anti-racism, postcolonialism, and intersectional feminism, blending research with lived experience to create urgent, thought provoking work.

Their recent directing work includes In’a Suit You (2025) for Blemme Fetale, and they performed Scenes of Mourning (2024) at the Albany Theatre as part of Haramacy with Commun. A regular spoken word performer, Tasnim has explored themes of resistance, power with Tamasha Theatre Company, Ordinary Stories, and Sisterhood at Root 25. Their writing has been published in WOWZINE, and they contribute reviews for Theatre Full Stop. Tasnim is also Assistant Producer/Director for Daedalus Theatre Company and founder director of Queen of Arts.

Find Tasnim on Instagram @tasnimsiddiqaamin https://www.instagram.com/tasnimsiddiqaamin/