Sailesh Naidu is a poet, performance artist, and comedian based in Berlin, Germany. Born in the United States by way of India, Sailesh’s work delves into the ideas of gender, sexuality, decolonization, and the body. A former German Chancellor’s Fellow they have worked in the field of migration, education, gender for over a decade with their projects winning the acclaim of the New York Times and PBS News Hour. Sailesh is currently working on their first poetry book “Territory.”