Be you; your authentic you
Younger me would have told you to create a persistent shell to hide behind. Young me was so wrong.
Body Image
Dina’s no longer a hijabi: What does this mean for the rest of us?
For the uninitiated, Dina Torkia (or Dina Tokio) is a blogger/YouTuber/social media influencer/designer and all round cool person. I have …
#MeToo: Finding a voice behind the veil.
Trying to say #MeToo in a hijab is hard – very hard.
My experience with getting periods as an adult – THEY SUCK.
Getting your periods as an adult is a confusing experience. Men have no idea how all-consuming periods can be; neither did I.
STOP. TRYING. TO. STRIP. ME.
I refuse to be stripped down – stripped of my personality, my strength, my intelligence, my beliefs, my culture and my rights.
Burkini Ban: How an Innocent Pun Became Another Way to Erase Muslim Women
Who’d have thought a wet-suit-cap-little-skirty thing that covers ones nethers would be so controversial?
International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation
February 6 is International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM. I’ve written a post explaining what FGM is, its prevalence, …
Anxiety; how I’m learning to understand my brain
Anxiety: a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome. I …
Congratulations. We’ve created 7 year old children with anorexia.
It’s disgusting. We are a society obsessed with how we look and it’s awful. Women are so concerned that their …
Insulting Skinny Girls is Just as Bad as Fat Shaming, Lucy Gransbury.
I’m fat. That shouldn’t be an insult, it’s a known fact, an adjective. People like to use it as an …
Unveiled Thought 