As we grow up, if boundaries aren’t created or respected by our parents, we can be left unsure about whose needs should take priority in our lives: ours, or theirs.
Read MoreI know that restricting my food intake for any reason and experiencing the intense hunger that I once viewed as a sign of my worth, brings with it the risk of falling back into old and dangerous habits.
Read MoreI’m more social than ever. But the blurring of boundaries between home and office and social space and gymnasium and meeting room and café and nursery and school and I’m tired all the time.
Read MoreSouth Asian characters are often the least dynamic ones in our media and I was frustrated by those portrayals when I know our people to be vibrant, smart, complicated, messy, and well...human.
Read MoreWe’ve been so economically insecure for so long that we’ve got a survival mindset etched into our psyches. This makes us tribal in ways that fuels other-ing along these lines of class, caste, gender, sexuality. It also sanctions a great deal of in-group policing.
Read MoreI told my therapist (let's call her Jo) about this, and she said I could leave at any time. After this, our dynamic shifted a bit. I became softer with her, the room felt more spacious and I felt like I could finally speak. I didn't feel as trapped.
Read MoreAlthough I still get anxious on occasion, I have been going to therapy and I am now a huge advocate of talking about your feelings with a mental health professional.
Read MoreThe fact that 1 in 4 adults suffer from deteriorating mental health at any given time, just gives credence to severity of the situation.
Read MoreI soon realised she meant more to me than just comparing body hair and secretly touching each other’s bodies in the dark.
Read MoreI felt so comfortable that I fell right into it; into the oblivion of him. That smell, his torso holding my collapsed body, the feeling of a tender embrace, maybe for the first time - I closed my eyes and I was gone.
Read MoreAs a community, we aren't very vocal and often conceal our emotions under the pretext of ‘strength’. We shed tears in isolation and hold back from speaking about the people we have lost.
Read MoreWe must find a way to create a social environment that is more welcoming and inclusive for people of all shapes and sizes through our words and through our actions.
Read MoreIn the months since, I’ve had time to reflect on our friendship and I’ve realised that there were always issues that I ignored.
Read MoreThe reasons to visit the sub-continent are many and various but, in my opinion, they ought to be despite the markers of poverty, not because of them.
Read MoreBubbling inside you is a fury that refuses to subside for your comfort. The anger is coded in your DNA. The harsh word or glare fights to escape from your clutches.
Read MoreI believed I was both Pakistani and American, but others did not agree; I believed I was a Muslim, but I didn’t 'look' Muslim.
Read MoreOne significant factor that I found myself struggling with most, was my Indian culture
Read MoreAccording to my family back home, two of the most disgraceful things someone could do are, one, fashion, and two, being American.
Read MoreI never wanted to feel like the odd one out again, I never wanted to feel like a foreign body, I just wanted to fit in like everyone else did.
Read MoreHow many times have we told our young boys to 'stop crying like a girl' and in later years to 'grow a pair'
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