Lose Weight Before All The Girls Are Taken
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We 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.
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Paper Bags and Pakistan's Fear of Periods
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As soon as girls become women, there is the start of shaming, guilt and degrading - but why are men so disgusted by blood?
Read MoreThe Menstruation Myth in Hindu Communities
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It’s upsetting to think that at such a young age, women are taught to be ashamed of their periods simply because society has an unhealthy relationship with women’s femininity and bodily functions/fluids.
Read MoreMy White Feminist Friend
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In 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 MoreSlipping by Invisible and Different
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The 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 MoreBrown Girl Hacks
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Bubbling 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 MoreWhose Honour Is It Anyway?
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Women are held to a different standard and have to abide by a different handbook of rules.
Read MoreDissecting My Indian-African-British Cultural Roots
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what did I really know about my own culture, the Indian-African-British culture that I was born into?
Read MoreConversations with Dadima
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Time and time again I fail to understand why ‘the freedom to make your own choices’ is such a faraway concept.
Read MoreDo you speak Hindu?
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During my recent visit to India, it was obvious from the endless stares that I was identified as a foreigner, and was stopped in the street many times by people trying to take a photo of me because I was born with lighter skin than average for a south Asian.
Read MoreBridges not Barriers
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I 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 MoreConfidence and Self Love in the Creative Industry
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One significant factor that I found myself struggling with most, was my Indian culture
Read MoreA Journey of Fashion and Self Acceptance
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According to my family back home, two of the most disgraceful things someone could do are, one, fashion, and two, being American.
Read MoreWhere Are You From?
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I say England and people think I’m trying to deny my roots, which couldn’t be further from the truth, or say India, and incite confusion because of my lack of residence.
Read MoreMy Dual Identity
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I 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 MoreThe Culture of Marriage
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Our romance blossomed over MSN and 3310s, progressing to stolen kisses in the car park of Eid parties.
Read MoreMy Coffee Interview
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It’s 2017, I would like to think that we live in a society where the colour of your skin shouldn’t matter, your gender shouldn’t matter, neither should religious, political beliefs or sexual orientation matter.
Read MoreToxic Masculinity in Brown Men
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How many times have we told our young boys to 'stop crying like a girl' and in later years to 'grow a pair'
Read MoreJeans Don’t Make Me ‘White’
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If it’s your calling to preserve a particular custom or a way of life, I respect that. The moment, though, it becomes a taunt or an obligation, your stance becomes a rigid ‘my way or the highway’.
Read MoreThe Portrayal of Independent Women in Bollywood
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The narratives of Hindi cinema have undoubtedly been male dominated and male-centric, however the heroine’s role is charted out according to the male
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