TOOBA SYED is a grassroots political organizer and gender researcher. She has been organising for over a decade with grassroots movement of peasants, urban working class, students and women. She is a Founding Member and currently Secretary of information and publishing of the feminist organization Women Democratic Front and a member of the Awami Workers Party, Punjab. She teaches as faculty at the Centre of Excellence for Gender Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.