We Were Never Meant to Find Each Other. And Yet, Here We Are.
Mission
We are not a platform. We are a pulse.
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The BlindianProject is a living archive and cultural movement uniting Black and South Asian diasporas.
Through storytelling, memory work, and creative disruption, we build space for connection that wasn’t meant to exist, and still does.
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From film to fashion, tech to ritual, we tell the stories that colonial borders tried to silence.
We move with rhythm. We build with resistance. We hold it all with care.​​
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Vision
​To be the global home of Black x Brown kinship.
A place where our joy is documented.
Our rage is understood.
And our futures are built—loudly, together.​
Jonah Batambuze
Founder & CEO
Jonah Batambuze is a Ugandan-American interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and cultural architect remixing diaspora, ritual, and memory into radical narratives of connection.
As founder of the BlindianProject, he builds cultural infrastructure across continents—where Black x Brown solidarity isn’t theory, it’s practice.
His work moves between food, film, and community ritual, using sonic memory, moving image, and collective gathering as material to confront anti-Blackness, reimagine identity, and activate global belonging.
He doesn’t just reclaim the intersections of Black and South Asian worlds—he remixes them into blueprints for liberation.
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Batambuze’s work has been featured by the BBC, Times of India, ITV, and more. He has held space across classrooms and cultural institutions—from Stanford to SOAS, and was a 2021/22 Metal Culture UK Artist-in-Residence and a curator for Dortmund Goes Black (2023), where he premiered his first short film.
But more than accolades, his practice builds bridges between communities, continents, and futures not yet written.
Managing Editor
Ayesha is a Pakistani-Swiss polyglot and multigenre creative with a background in Sociology. She is a collector of all things brand, people, and storytelling.
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a freelance writer and editor by day and a theatre student by night, her focus revolves around crafting identities, building community, and solving unsolvable problems. Alongside working as the Managing Editor, Ayesha will work on other #BlindianProject strategic activities.
Creator
Arsheen Shamaila is a poet, writer, and journalist originally from Pakistan but now based in Toronto. In the past, she has worked as an associate producer and line producer for various national and local radio shows. Her responsibilities included pitching, researching, interviewing, writing scripts, and more recently, on-air newsreading.
Arsheen is driven by a passion for social justice and creating positive change in her community. She uses her experiences and life lessons to narrate untold stories that are often hidden under taboos.
