X Ali Khan is an artist, facilitator and community worker. She is a queer, disabled Pakhtun from Pakistan. X is a student of Abolitionist and Crip teachings, as well as various cultural wisdoms that are rooted in her South Asian background.
X uses art to conduct existential inquiries; exploring and interrogating ideas around truth, power and what it means to be human. Her first solo exhibit was held in Toronto in 2023, titled The Truths Are Always Watching. In 2024 she co-produced her second short film, which focuses on how racialized migrants build solidarity and resistance against colonial-capitalist systems through food. The film is set to screen at conferences in various locations, including Canada, Greece and Brazil. Art is X’s process for healing, worship and provocation.
X is also a facilitator and community worker. Through the pandemic she built a network of care and community that supported marginalized youth in the Greater Toronto Area to access food, housing and wellness. In 2022 she achieved the TAC’s Open Door Strategic Initiatives Fund through which she co-founded an art collective that is growing and building with marginalized artists. Presently she is supporting her loved ones at the Dufferin Grove Encampment as they navigate violence perpetrated by police and the City of Toronto.