The Right Age for Marriage?
I recently started following pages on Instagram relating to South Asian heritage and saw this caption posted by @southasianqueens: “I feel like marriage conversations and pressures often start much before the age of 24. I
“Layla’s Pot”: A Short Story
Layla owned one medium-sized pot, which she used to cook absolutely everything. Not because she didn’t have any other pots – there were a range of other sizes, colours and brands stacked haphazardly onto the
Therapy In Your Thirties… It’s A Thing
Therapy for the most part has lost some if it’s stigma – well, at least in certain brown communities according to my experience. Over the last few years many of my thirty something friends have
Armie Hammer, TikTok and the Glamorization of Sexual Violence
Contemporary culture has declared itself to be ok with sexual excess and sexual violence, in fact it encourages it. While Weinstein and #metoo provided a momentary reckoning for Hollywood, the Armie Hammer scandal shows that
Who is Rizwan?
Many of us, especially young Muslims of Colour in my generation, regardless of where we find ourselves geographically, have been following British actor Riz Ahmed’s journey from the time of its inception. Be it through
For the Love of Love
“We have reduced love, this cosmic divine force, to a small sliver of its full potency. Nowadays when we speak about love, we almost exclusively refer to romantic love. But for the mystics, love is
Rilke on Writing Better
“In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation. And those who come together in the night and are entwined in rocking delight do an earnest
Slave Masters: Early Practitioners of Scientific Management
Before Eric Williams’ seminal text Capitalism and Slavery (1944) which made the profound argument that slavery was the foundation for the Industrial Revolution and industrial capitalism, W.E.B. Du Bois repositioned slavery in American capitalism in
Untethered
We tend to think of death as that one moment, the one that stands between the final breath and the void that follows in all its silence and emptiness. Until that point, you’re alive. This
Space: My Parent’s Greatest Gift To Me
I flourished around deep connections and like some psychological ‘excavation’, I tried to understand people’s deepest aspirations, fears and insecurities. It was no gambit, just pure intrigue. Though my love to connect with others