‘Can You Really Be a Queer Muslim?’: Intersectionality and the Complexity of Identity
All About Love: Generational Trauma and its Relation to Mother-Daughter Love
My mother gave me the form of love she recognised. The one where you knew you were being taken care of, but your feelings and your ability to make choices for your future were discouraged. Yet, as I entered my twenties and observed my mother soften with age, she began reflecting on her own childhood; she made a shift in the way she perceived me, interacted with me, and began to understand a kind of love my grandmother failed to give her…
‘Not Broken’: The Struggles of Being an Aromantic Allosexual
It’s hard for many to understand the concept of being sexually attracted to someone but not ever developing romantic feelings for them. To not feel an emotion like love is seen as inhuman; many assume aromantics are heartless psychopaths or mentally ill. Or that aromantic allosexual women are ‘sluts’, whilst men are seen as womanisers…
Grieving The Parent Who Never Was: Reflecting on My Absent Father’s Suicide
Being raised by a single mother is its own type of grief. You mourn the loss of any father-daughter dance, bite your tongue when people ask you what you got your dad for Father’s Day, wish it wasn’t just you at home to explain to your mother how iTunes works. But this grief was something that I was always willing to carry for two reasons…