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…
Uncategorized Do puritanical ideas harm society or keep it straight? A couple’s kiss that led to…… 29 May 202129 May 2021 First of all, kissing, for all intents and purposes is strictly prohibited in Pakistan. It’s not a good thing to do. Even kissing your husband is considered forward and crass.…
Uncategorized “Feature me”! From Zakat to Outfits. Pakistani mindset in 2020. 10 Dec 202027 Feb 2021 It's no wonder that everything in my country is so incentive-based that when someone wants to do something for someone else's benefit, the benefactor wants a certain extra benefit also.…
Uncategorized Hosting the Grown Up Asian. “Dual Identity “. 15 Nov 2020 How I Embraced My Dual Cultural Identity as a Grown Up Asian I was born in Staten Island NY to two physician immigrants from the Philippines. I was…
Uncategorized Quirky Pakistani 3 21 Oct 202021 Oct 2020 "Honey! Your nipples are showing". "Yes, Mom, it's cold". "Cover them, honey". "How can I cover them?" "Erm... wear a sweatshirt". "Mom! I'm wearing a sweatshirt". "Wear another one. Didn't…
feminism… Cat fight! What do men want to see? 15 Sep 202018 Sep 2020 Cat fights have been the longest-awaited and most highly esteemed things to happen for most men. They're strangely obsessed with it and might I add, probably sexually. In the words…
Uncategorized “Even Chanel gets copied”….. the legitimizing of plagiarism and its devastating effects on the moral fabric of our society. 16 Aug 202016 Aug 2020 Plagiarism has become common with the advent of social media. Or may be it has become easier to catch. One of the two. Either way, it is very difficult to…
My mind as a woman 