feminism… I wouldn’t be here if….. 21 Apr 202221 Apr 2022 A lot of people ask me if I knew my husband before I got married. I sometimes lie, sometimes lash out with the truth and sometimes leave enough nuggets of…
burnout… My age and the havoc it can wreak. 31 Mar 202231 Mar 2022 “How old are you, dear?” The oldest of the three women asked, her yellowing teeth bared, reminding me of barracudas in the Australian reefs. How old am I, I stare…
feminism… Humor…Comedy…when does it stop being funny? 29 Mar 202229 Mar 2022 “What’s the most desirable quality in a man for you?” “He gotta be funny, Dad”, I didn’t miss a beat, “If he can’t make me laugh then I’m not even…
Uncategorized Why do we keep talking about Amir Liaquat Hussain? Because this is a feminist issue. 11 Feb 202211 Feb 2022 While you might think that what Amir Liaqat Hussain is doing for decades is just to garner some publicity, there is another fact at the foot of it all. He…
Uncategorized What must every woman do everyday? Dissent!!!! 31 Jan 20223 Feb 2022 I stood at the train station watching many trains rush past me. I vaguely wondered what was for dinner. I flicked that thought off of the edge of my brain.…
Uncategorized Abuse and the loneliness of the “empowered” woman! The shame that the abused carry….. 27 Dec 20216 Feb 2022 A lot of the things that white feminism taught us have continued to be foundations of current feminist movements. Many people who have viewed women differently since the arrival of…
consumerism… Silent feminists! 23 Dec 202123 Dec 2021 I’m at a convention for engineers. These are all Pakistani women. With their nice Chanel and Hermes bags. They look wealthy. Age is defied by them. When you have money,…
Uncategorized “Love yourself”, says the Feminist as I stare at her, stuck at the intersection that’s BEING A WOMAN. 18 Dec 202119 Dec 2021 Many popular ideas later I am compelled to ask the question that most people ask themselves when they’ve been repeatedly turned down at interviews that they have prepared for with…
Uncategorized The Bad Boy and the Millennial Woman’s Emancipation of Him. 11 Dec 202128 Mar 2022 I scanned the room for a smoldering eye, a cocky grin, a knowing look or even a lustful glare in my direction. None! There was none! None of the bad…
Uncategorized When it was time to use the bathroom…. A woman’s dread at being found out. 10 Dec 202126 Mar 2022 I knew that even if I so much as exhaled, I was sure to pee my pants. In the long last hour that my male colleague had taken to sit…