Abstract
This paper advances intersectional feminist scholarship by employing poetic inquiry methodology to analyze the lived experiences of a Pakistani Muslim working mother transitioning from a patriarchal society (Pakistan) to a socio-culturally distinct context (China). Centering the author’s intersecting identities; gender, Muslim faith, working mother, and solo parent the study examines the navigation of motherhood, career demands, emotional labor, and systemic constraints across cultural contexts. Through autobiographical poetry and critical storytelling, the research documents nuanced emotional landscapes and structural barriers often obscured in traditional qualitative data. The analysis demonstrates that integrating poetic inquiry within an intersectional framework offers distinctive advantages; it prioritizes creative expression, captures the complexity of human experience, and transcends reductive interpretations of struggle. Findings reveal how poetic articulation serves as both a testament to human resilience and a methodological tool for mapping the emotional terrain of survival. By foregrounding marginalized creative voices, this study proposes poetic inquiry as an innovative strategy for amplifying underrepresented perspectives within feminist research, affirming its capacity to articulate subjugated knowledges and validate embodied experiences.