Balancing Creativity & Expectations
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Not fitting the mould is complicated enough, without having your community bash it too
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Your Heart Deserves More
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Maz writes about her father's lifestyle that has led to his heart problems and thinks about how we can help our bodies in these turbulent times.
Read MoreEating With My Hands in a World Full of Cutlery
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The sound of my cutlery scratching my plate was replaced by the soft whispers of squishy rice and curry being balled up by my fingers.
Read MoreI am Brown and Depressed
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I felt disgusted with myself, like I was never going to become anyone and that I would be better off dead.
Read MoreThe Stigma Of Menstruation
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You shouldn't make us feel embarrassed and refer to it with so much negativity.
Read MoreBeing a Fat Brown Girl
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I realised today that I can’t love my body the way it is because I am surrounded by people who keep telling me that I am too fat to be loved.
Read MoreBollywood’s Unfair and Ugly Obsession with Colour
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Why do we even have to talk about and distinguish an actor (or any person for that matter) by their colour – black or white?
Read MoreBeta, when are you getting married?
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No description of a woman would be free of their relationship status, and often it was the only, defining characteristic my parents mentioned
Read MoreWhere Are All The Influential Sikh Women?
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If I can leave any kind of footprint, it would be the kind of footprint a Sikh woman would feel capable of filling. Because she can.
Read MoreWhat This Election Means To Me, An American Muslim
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I am no longer just an American, I am a Muslim Woman of Colour in America.
Read MoreIn Defence of Sad Brown Girls - A Tumblr Critique
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The question at hand is, why are the feminine among us exclusively deemed corny, reductive, or myopic in their craft?
Read MorePunjabi. Gujarati. South Indian...Spot The Odd One Out.
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Rema discusses how South India consists of five very distinct and individual states, it isn't JUST 'South India'.
Read MoreNationalism & Cricket - Rain Stops Play
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With cricket there was no question where my loyalties sat, as they sat on the sofa with my family.
Read MoreBeing An Angry Woman (Arts Emergency Podcast)
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Just because that person who screamed ‘go back to your country’ at me the other day makes you feel uneasy, I’m not going to forget.
Read MoreNeither One, Nor The Other
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My cousins knew the lyrics to every song in Lemonade just as well as they knew the songs from Coke Studio Pakistan.
Read MoreClean Up Your Social Media...Boys Will See That
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We’re taught to appear polite on the internet so that men actually want to be introduced to us.
Read MoreSkirts and Rape
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When women cover their bodies, men are functioning humans, but when we wear skirts, men become feral, wild beasts, unable to control their desires.
Read MoreThe Crippling and Comforting Journey to Recapture Culture
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On a childhood spent forgetting and the difficulty of remembering again.
Read MoreThe Diary Of A PoC Abroad
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I became more aware of my ethnicity and the fact that outside of India, I’m still a minority.
Read MoreWhy We Don’t Talk About Brexit and Working Class PoC
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Rabiah questions where in the Brexit discourse do working class people of colour fit in.
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