Anila Quayyum Agha

Growing up in Lahore, Pakistan, Anila Quayyum Agha was always stuck by the lacy jali, or pierced window screens, of Mughal architecture. Historically, they served to divide men and women within religious institutions, she says. Later, as a fiber arts graduate student in Texas, Agha felt both pigeonholed and excluded by her dual status as a woman and an immigrant, so she began to think about inverting the jali to “create a sort of version of a feminist state that actually allows everybody in.”...