I know that restricting my food intake for any reason and experiencing the intense hunger that I once viewed as a sign of my worth, brings with it the risk of falling back into old and dangerous habits.
Read MoreI’m more social than ever. But the blurring of boundaries between home and office and social space and gymnasium and meeting room and café and nursery and school and I’m tired all the time.
Read MoreLate 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 MoreThe mollycoddling extended from the physical into the mental, straining our mental health to protect the sanity of the men in the house.
Read MoreAfter the fallout of Windrush, Shamima Begum’s citizenship stripping and increasing hostile environment, Starmer’s Shadow home office dept fails in every aspect.
Read More26 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 MoreIn 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 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 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 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 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.
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