"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”
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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 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 MoreWhy 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 MoreBend It Like Bala Devi
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As the sole representative of the team abroad, [Bala Devi] currently represents a big step forward for the women’s game in India, and for the profile of Indian players on the international stage.
Read MoreThe fashion industry made me feel like I didn't belong
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The excitement from the first few days wore off when my responsibilities included running to three different supermarkets to purchase a very specific bar of chocolate for the boss, lugging bags of ice down flashy streets of London to stock up the office freezer.
Read MoreWhy is Princess Diana so popular with immigrant mothers?
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I watched my own mother settle in to watch this portrayal of Princess Diana with the same intensity that my grandmother afforded to Indian serials.
Read MoreMy relationship with body hair in Lockdown 2.0
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Our western, phallocentric society’s idea of ‘natural body hair’ basically means being ‘bald from the eyebrows down’, and that has been reinforced deeply and broadly, on a conscious and a subconscious level.
Read MoreShahnaz Ahsan on why she wrote her book 'Hashim & Family' and the importance of archiving history
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Late at night, sometimes my grandmother would tell us the story of the distant cousin who died at the bottom of a lake; they found her sitting perfectly cross-legged, serene, as though a water-spirit had taken her.
Read MoreSouth Asian Women are taught to take on a man's emotional burden
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The mollycoddling extended from the physical into the mental, straining our mental health to protect the sanity of the men in the house.
Read MoreI was a burden since I was born and I can still feel the shame my family felt for me.
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26 years later the pain the trauma brings hurts so deep that it feels almost physical, and for the first few years with her, it was. From the beginning, I always felt like a burden and not a bundle.
Read MoreWe need to break from generations of slut shaming
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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 MoreStripping Shamima Begum's citizenship is the tip of the iceberg
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As 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 MoreKaty Perry isn't British or Asian, why is she the ambassador for The British Asian Trust?
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To 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 MorePriti Patel doesn't believe there's any racism in Britain
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Fascinating, as this statement is socially, economically, politically and environmentally incorrect.
Read MoreMake a stand against the far right of Trump, Modi and the Tories by voting for Corbyn
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Narendra Modi, Donald Trump, Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson: all these international figures have one thing in common, their thirst for increased capitalist ventures.
Read MoreS.A.S.S. are opening discussions for South Asian womxn
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As 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 MoreOur disadvantaged mothers gave us an advantage
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I 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 MoreSaachi Sen's song 'Dark' speaks to colourism in the South Asian community
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wasn’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 MoreHalloween, Brexit and the forced occupation of Kashmir
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Kashmir 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.
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