In order to break through the patriarchal structure in which many of our family dynamics are based upon, the women in the community need to work together and not act as catalysts to the problem.
Read MoreAs a country that has recently just voted to leave the EU on the grounds that we want our laws back so people can be tried and prosecuted under British courts, it seems we have failed at the first hurdle.
Read MoreTo have a member of the British monarchy appoint an American white woman, completely removed from Asian culture or heritage, to be an ambassador for British Asians is a vignette of colonial attitudes perversely rearing its head in modern society.
Read MoreFascinating, as this statement is socially, economically, politically and environmentally incorrect.
Read MoreIn the event of a nationwide NRC, those declared ‘illegal foreigners’ may be able to use the CAA to apply for citizenship, but only if they belong to the six religions specified.
Read MoreNarendra Modi, Donald Trump, Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson: all these international figures have one thing in common, their thirst for increased capitalist ventures.
Read MoreAs the millennials and Gen Zs of today, we’ve navigated our childhood and teenage years learning about a predominantly white history that supposedly shaped the Britain we live in.
Read MoreI cannot imagine the strength and bravery it took my grandma to immigrate to this country, nor can I imagine how difficult her life must have been living here during an era of little equality and excessive xenophobia.
Read Morewasn’t aware of any other work she did until I came across a new song she released called ‘Dark’. It speaks to the deep rooted issue of colourism in South Asian communities.
Read MoreKashmir is a predominantly Muslim state, something that we can’t ignore in this narrative. Remembering that the Hindu Nationalist government whose aim is to define Indian culture with Hindu values helps us understand what’s happening here.
Read MoreIf productions are casting one ethnic person in a show, it fills their diversity quota, they can wash their hands of any guilt and pat themselves on the back during meetings. It isn’t for us, it’s for them...and it shows.
Read MoreWhen it was revisited in 2017 by the High Court, after several petitions and in the case Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India, homosexuality was finally decriminalised in India, by 2018.
Read MoreThe emphasis should not be placed on the rhetoric that all it took was a white man swooping in and saving us in order for the greater good to occur. That we don’t need that ‘altruistic’ white hand lifting us up out of the so-called misery we were in before.
Read MoreSweeping aside the fact that they both took place in March and involved the desperation of impending homelessness to opposite extremes, they convey the feelings of vulnerability involved in moving house and what you are forced to both realise, and accept about yourself, in a short space of time.
Read MoreThe stigma attached to the physical act of inserting certain sanitary products, is not as frequently highlighted. It’s still a problematic issue faced by South Asian womxn.
Read MoreThrough racism, ranging from violent crime to microaggression, the policing of brown and black bodies in Britain is ever present.
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 MoreOral histories, histories of diaspora, my history has not been recorded - it’s disappearing and we are pressured to assimilate into a new history that is of our oppressor.
Read MorePeople on the show asked him if he’s a terrorist. Tan isn’t there to confront these issues, he’s there to help someone find their style and reinforce the french tuck. It became too much and he tried to quit.
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