Sabah Choudrey accepts role as co-director of Middlesex Pride – as a Brownslow resident, they explain why it’s important
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Being a Director means I am settled here in Middlesex but I’m not settling.
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Punjabi women were given chapatis laced with radioactive isotopes in the 1960s
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It is said that the experiments were administered to understand why so many South Asians suffered from anaemia.
Read MoreThe importance of Polite Society
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That’s undeniable from the film - the exaggerated action, the silliness of the dramatics, the aesthetics and adornments are all brought from someone who admired Bollywood
Read MorePublicly holding hands should not be a political act
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There is always an underlying connotation for any action I make even tenuously perceived to be connected to queerness.
Read MoreHow Joyland confronts the patriarchy by challenging gender norms
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“The trans existence is a direct challenge to the patriarchal way of thinking”, Sadiq tells me when I ask about why having trans characters is important to him.
Read MorePink Mirrors - exploring South Asian queerness through cinema
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All I was watching was European and American, focusing on the white experience I almost got fatigued wondering where we are in all this.
Read MoreThe besmirching of brown aunties
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…the brown aunties spreading gossip are not creating these archaic standards for young women – they are merely exercising an ideology which has strictly been enforced unto them.
Read More"Not just Brown, not just Indian" with Mathushaa Sagthidas
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“This project was created out of frustration from the lack of representation of South Asians from an authentic perspective within publications and gallery spaces”
Read MoreNoor by Azma Dar: a look into the life of the first female Muslim war hero
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Anyone trying to tell the story of Noor Inayat Khan would face the challenge of what parts of the story to tell and what to leave out.
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Mim Shaikh on dark skin representation in TV and film
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Instead of being fuelled by the fact that I was the first South Asian broadcaster to present on a daytime slot on BBC Radio 1Xtra, I instead kept hearing a voice say “do you actually belong here?”
Read MoreI accidentally defined my queerness through toxic whiteness
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My queerness became a performance, so my culture could be silenced into acceptance. I learnt that was happening when it was over. Although I have shame, I don’t have regret. I’ve since understood what happened and what I really need.
Read MoreFinding my home
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Accents surround me. People look at me as I speak and stare. In a room full of white people, I feel like my “acha” and “teek” and “hai!” are questioned. I speak in my tongue and in mums, both are foreign and offer intrigue.
Read MoreThe Space of Ace
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I am asexual, a person who is not attracted to anyone sexually, because that has been my nature since birth. I am sex aversive because of the negative experiences I’ve had with my consent being ignored.
Read MoreBishi carves her own universe with a rock-sitar and tireless dedication
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The delicate issues surrounding race, class and heritage that marinated over the following years became central to her expression and is the subject of the long-anticipated third album 'Let My Country Awake'.
Read MoreMilli Bhatia on the Seven Methods Of Killing Kylie Jenner
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It’s set in 2019, but it’s extraordinary to come back to it now in this world and see how important everything in the play still is and how urgently this conversation still needs to happen.
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Why we need to decolonise sex education
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As South Asian people, we must reflect on our prejudices and ask ourselves how we can start dismantling anti-Blackness in the community, the media, healthcare settings and other spaces we occupy.
Read MoreSilence comes as no surprise in response to the Farmer's Protest
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Upon hearing of Modi’s government’s handling of the protestors, I was reminded of the treatment of Indians, particularly Indian farmers, under British colonial rule, and I am not alone in this sentiment.
Read MoreBisha K. Ali is amplifying marginalised voices in TV and Film
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I spoke to Bisha about this work specifically – as someone who has and is continuing to do amazing work in an industry that feels gatekept and elitist, she’s letting others know that they can and should be in the same room she’s in.
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