The 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.
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Bishi 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 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.
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 MoreHow Netflix's Masaba Masaba unapologetically represents real women
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Not only has Masaba struggled with her Black Caribbean identity in India, but struggled with the fact that Neena raised her as a single mother in the public eye.
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 MoreHow the Term BAME Can Be Used to Dilute Black Women's Oppression
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It’s crucial to examine why non-black woc, (either consciously subconsciously) may feel that their struggles and oppression are comparable to that of the black community in the first place.
Read MoreDelhi Crime and Our Fascination With True Crime
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This show allows us to give the voice back to women, but the overwhelming voice is from the police force. Are we humanising a particularly corrupt police force for any reason other than storytelling?
Read MoreInterfaith Marriages and Isolation from Religious Spaces
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Upon my further research of interfaith protests in Britain, I discovered that large organisations such as Sikh Youth UK, have been responsible for many of them.
Read MoreThese Are The 'Women Who Won' From Bradford's WOW Festival
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In Bradford, a city which recently hosted the third Women of the World (WOW) Bradford festival that celebrates women and young girls and takes a frank look at the obstacles they face.
Read MoreIs #MeToo Only Accessible To The Privileged?
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When an entire revolution takes place in a language that the less privileged do not speak, its accessibility is bound to remain beyond their reach.
Read MoreSolidarity Not Silence
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…they received letters from A's solicitor and came together as a group in order to support each other. The group includes one of A's ex-girlfriends, one of several of his former partners who are facing a libel claim, and feminist musicians who spoke out in support of these women.
Read MoreTo All The People Who Don’t Believe in Gender Inequality
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The 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 More#RepresentAsian with Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy
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Sharmeen 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 MoreAn Open Letter To The Aunty On The Train
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The 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 MoreThe Slumdog Feminist
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Yes, 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.
Read MoreBrowngirlgazin Re-defines Beauty Standards for Women in India
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Images we see shape our world, and have the potential to create fundamental changes in our belief and ideology.
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