‘Can You Really Be a Queer Muslim?’: Intersectionality and the Complexity of Identity
The Wilderness of the True Self: Reflections on Identity
I am not my gender. I am not the colour of my skin. I am not perfect. This wholeness and this bundle of life I carry inside is my identity. My imperfections are my absolute identity. To love is to not deny any part of you. Accepting the light and darkness within you is unconditional love, and it is only through unconditional love we can have an identity that’s cosmic. My identity is divine…
‘A Cultural Battleground’: Balancing My British and South Indian Identities and Embracing Duality
Being born in Kerala, India, and then living in Mumbai for a year as a baby with my parents are two years of my childhood that I cannot recall. But it inevitably cemented for my family the idea that I am a true Malayali. Even when we migrated to the United Kingdom in 2002, this belief was passed on to me as I grew up among a different population…
What Are You? The Ambiguous Life of a Genderfluid Person
What are you? First off, I am not a what. I am a who. Who am I is the appropriate question. […] Society makes us believe that there are only two genders and that anything outside their defined binary is considered abnormal and incorrect. But genders are not what you are assigned at birth. Genders are labels that describe your identity…
How I’m Befriending My Worst Enemy, Time.
Women In The Media: Why We Shouldn’t Accept ‘Damsel In Distress’ Stereotypes
What’s Up With Wakanda?
Undoubtedly, the world needed to reimagine Africa through a filter that wasn’t NGO lenses trained on suffering children, or wildlife documentaries revelling in our emptiness. But we don’t live in a what if. The reality of Africa is not utopic. And that’s okay.