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‘I’m a Pakistani and you’re just a Paki’: The Pakistani immigrant experience
The Pakistani immigrant experience is one of insecurity, of never feeling Pakistani enough.
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I read up on Sadequain and now I have no idea what to think about him
Sadequain's compromise with elite dictators like Zia-ul-Haq stands in stark contrast with his work which focused on the powerless.
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The Toothless Pakistani Liberal
The problem with liberals is that they're not radical enough.
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You Have One New Friend Request
Ayesha Malik on the Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy saga, the #metoo campaign, and how we need to shift the discourse away from one of victimhood to agency.
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Objects living in a world of objects
Ayesha Malik discusses the beauty myth in Pakistani society, and how conforming to cultural standards affects all our personal relationships.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Lawn
Lahore in the summer is colonised by lawn billboards. Fifty-foot women flanking the Jinnah flyover informing us that lawn season is here. IT’S HERE, and this is only Vol 1. I think their ubiquity is supposed to elicit a Pavlovian reaction in women stuck in traffic. But behind those lawn billboards, behind every patronising reassurance…
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Café Mansplain
The mansplain - we’ve all been there and had it done to us. In Sweden they even had to open a hotline for women so they could talk about it – that’s how often it happens. Of course men derailed the entire thing because they kept calling to report they were worried they’d mansplained to someone and…