I 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 MoreThe inequalities we face today stem from systematic and cultural phenomenons that have worked to place females in a myriad of disadvantaged positions and have oppressed male expressions of vulnerability.
Read MoreMim Shaikh is a BBC Radio broadcaster, actor, spoken word artist. With his recent debut documentary Finding Dad on BBC Three, and his latest role in the BBC TV Drama Informer.
Read MoreSharmeen is an Academy Award and an Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker. Her most recent work includes documentary features Song of Lahore and A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers.
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 MoreSuddenly Karen chimed in. “When I went, they kept asking me how many camels I could be bought for!” she giggled.
Read MoreAt work I’m someone else, at my aunties I’m someone else, with my boys I’m someone else, like you have to be so many different people to please so many people, whilst trying to figure out what exactly who you are or where you belong as an individual.
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 MoreWe speak to MS Karamat about her international project ‘Fear and Memory’, where the central theme of the project is based around fear from perceptions on terrorism.
Read More#RepresentAsian is a series by Nosheen M, where she speaks to experts in their field, about how they got to where they are.
Read MoreThe stories brown people have been telling for what feels like ever are finally comprehensible to a majority white population because they are seeing parallels happening concurrently in their real life.
Read MoreLove itself is a political ideology in South Asian cultures, when you’re diplomatically balancing your heart and relationship with your parents. I find the political landscape of the governing body of ‘aunties’ tend to lay down laws we try our best to rebel.
Read MoreThere’s a difference between being palatable to the white gaze with these jokes and it’s another to share common frustrations with those who understand.
Read MoreThe fact of the matter is that this topic alone is endless and the sub-topics leading off it are too. Sadly this is only one out of a million things that the women in our community are wrongly judged for.
Read MoreWhile I’m in an interracial relationship, I find myself looking at other unknown couples and wondering what it’s like for them.
Read MoreOur vegetarianism extended beyond our food intake, however; wearing leather in any form was frowned upon, and when my sister started playing a violin strung with horsehair, we all collectively winced.
Read MoreI am not inclined, in the lofty position of hindsight, to call them powerful matriarchs. […] perhaps they were also the first migrants who navigated womanhood along with internal politics, finances, religion, morality, cold winters to give their children the best they could, in the best way they knew how.
Read MoreReeta talks to our favourite food brand Natco about the work they’re doing - that you may not be aware of.
Read MoreI escaped to a Tibetan Buddhist monastery called Samye Ling in the Scottish highlands. I had to travel 2 hours by train and another a 30 minutes by a bus just to get there.
Read MoreYes, I was brave fighting with my traditional family and society for the life I wanted, but I wasn’t brave enough to face my own pain.
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