Banning Conversion Practices: Saba Ali on Faith, Harm & Global Resistance

In this episode of 1946: The Culture Shift Tour – United Kingdom, we sit

down with Saba Ali — award-winning activist, speaker, and Chair of the Ban

Conversion Practices Coalition.

This is one of the most urgent conversations we’ve had.

As global debates intensify — and with recent rulings in the United States

framing conversion therapy as “free speech” — the reality is clear: these

practices are not therapy. They are harm.

Saba prefers the term “conversion practices” because there is nothing

therapeutic about attempting to change or suppress someone’s sexuality or

gender identity.

As a queer South Asian woman with lived experience, Saba brings deep

insight into the intersection of race, religion, culture, and identity. Her