Born: 1985 (circa), India
Died: NA
Country most active: Australia
Also known as: NA
The following is excerpted from Fire Dragon Feminism: Asian Migrant Women’s Tales of Migration, Coloniality and Racial Capitalism by Quah Ee Ling (2025), republished with permission from the author.
Sukhmani Khorana, born and grew up in Jammu, India, left her Sikh family home for boarding school in Rajasthan and a brief stint in Delhi before leaving for Adelaide, Australia, for undergraduate and postgraduate studies and, subsequently, Queensland, Wollongong and Sydney for academic job positions. A migrant within her birth country and across oceans, Sukhmani Khorana researches, writes, teaches and engages in activism to improve public understanding of migrants and refugees in the Global North. Author of Mediated Emotions of Migration (Khorana 2023) and The Tastes and Politics of Inter-cultural Food in Australia (Khorana 2018), Khorana uses interdisciplinary, critical media analytical approaches and creative storytelling methods to document migrants’ diverse settlement trajectories. Khorana’s anticoloniality, anti-racism works aim to enact social change through research, advocacy and support of fellow women of colour migrant communities. In the lead up to a national referendum on whether to change the constitution to recognize the First Peoples of Australia by establishing a body called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, Khorana was one of the key organizers for South Asians for Voice reaching out and encouraging South Asian immigrants to vote yes to an Indigenous voice to Australian parliament (South Asians for Voice 2023).