Love itself is a political ideology in South Asian cultures, when you’re diplomatically balancing your heart and relationship with your parents. I find the political landscape of the governing body of ‘aunties’ tend to lay down laws we try our best to rebel.
Read MoreThere’s a difference between being palatable to the white gaze with these jokes and it’s another to share common frustrations with those who understand.
Read MoreThe 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 MoreWhile I’m in an interracial relationship, I find myself looking at other unknown couples and wondering what it’s like for them.
Read MoreOur vegetarianism extended beyond our food intake, however; wearing leather in any form was frowned upon, and when my sister started playing a violin strung with horsehair, we all collectively winced.
Read MoreI am not inclined, in the lofty position of hindsight, to call them powerful matriarchs. […] perhaps they were also the first migrants who navigated womanhood along with internal politics, finances, religion, morality, cold winters to give their children the best they could, in the best way they knew how.
Read MoreReeta talks to our favourite food brand Natco about the work they’re doing - that you may not be aware of.
Read MoreI escaped to a Tibetan Buddhist monastery called Samye Ling in the Scottish highlands. I had to travel 2 hours by train and another a 30 minutes by a bus just to get there.
Read MoreYes, 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 MoreImages we see shape our world, and have the potential to create fundamental changes in our belief and ideology.
Read MoreCheap laughs sponsored by offensive stereotypes are becoming a thing of the past, but lately it seems television has gone too far in the other direction.
Read MoreI empathised with the outrage Jess felt when her traditionally-minded Asian family made sweeping judgements based on little information or logic
Read MoreIf white is a blank canvas, a slate clean of connotations, brown is one stained with the shadows of the people who came before you and the expectation of who you are supposed to be.
Read MoreAs the old saying goes maida (wheat flour) is considered more beautiful than melanin. But never have I thought of my skin-tone as a shortcut to anything in life.
Read MoreI threw myself into the traditions of Mauritian weddings as my cousin got married, and my judgement of how young she was, to be committing so early, crumbled away like the henna drying on her hands.
Read MoreEvery time a woman rises and demands that her cause be heard, men will viciously taint her name and attempt to erase her voice from the conversation.
Read MoreThe benefits of social media allow a deep level of access to knowledge, the flip side is often a feeling of helplessness towards a tangible solution, once an issue has been internalised, discussed, and vociferously condemned online.
Read MoreI soon realised she meant more to me than just comparing body hair and secretly touching each other’s bodies in the dark.
Read MoreI felt so comfortable that I fell right into it; into the oblivion of him. That smell, his torso holding my collapsed body, the feeling of a tender embrace, maybe for the first time - I closed my eyes and I was gone.
Read MoreThese first steps were really important for us to establish the ethos of the group, namely one that was as diverse as possible and didn’t just showcase fair-skinned, North Indian, Muslim and Hindu women.
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