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Layers of My Lola: A Love Letter to My Nani
My grandparents migrated to India (Mumbai) from Sindh during the partition in 1947. After coming to India, my Nana (maternal grandfather)...
Nikita Asnani
Apr 26, 20223 min read
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Racism Alienated Me. Now I Help Others Navigate Their Experiences and Identities
A Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) reveals how being "othered" fueled her passion to help others navigate the same experiences. As...
Saarika Rao
Aug 9, 20215 min read
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What Do You Mean I "Don't Look Indian?"
The world has only recently begun to realise how intrinsic racism is. ‘Unconscious bias’ and ‘white privilege’ are at the forefront of...
Arka Raina
Jul 21, 20215 min read
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6 South Asian Female Academics You Should Know About
This list will be updated weekly Being a Desi woman in the humanities can be daunting. Within the sea of whiteness that characterises...
Jasmine Joshi
Apr 3, 202110 min read
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Get Up Aisha: the web-series about a high-functioning depressed Pakistani girl we NEEDED
Get Up Aisha is a short-form digital series that focuses on Aisha Rehman after she becomes diagnosed with chronic depression.
Kaneeka Kapur
Feb 27, 20215 min read
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The Sound of Healing
Born and raised in Amsterdam to a Catholic mother and Hindu father, Joelle Charan celebrates her Hindustani roots with her identity and...
Joelle Charan
Feb 25, 20215 min read
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Beginning the self-love journey
I didn't "do" self-love. What I did do was put my head down and grind out accomplishments, adding lines to a CV that would prove I was...
Anu Kumar
Feb 23, 20215 min read
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Balancing Two Cultures in One Relationship (My Interracial Relationship)
I'm Andrea, a Sri Lankan-Canadian, and I met my fiancé, a Caucasian man, on Tinder. Though my family is Sri Lankan, I was born and raised...
Andrea
Feb 23, 20214 min read
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To the Not-Like-Other-Girls Girls
Dedicated to a younger me. When did we, as collective members of the global sisterhood, come together and decide to strategically...
Ketki Mahabaleshwarkar
Jan 31, 20216 min read
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Kalaakriti: NehaxStitch
The Kalaakriti series aims to highlight the stories of different artists with South Asian backgrounds. In today’s installation, check out...
Keerti Tadimeti
Jan 18, 20216 min read
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Why does being bicultural feel like you're in no man's land?
Avani Modi explores what it is like to be bicultural, and coming to terms with the feeling of "otherness".
Avani Modi Sarkar
Dec 21, 20206 min read
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Reclaim the Name
How many of you have ever felt personally victimised by a substitute teacher taking the class register? I see you raising your hands.
Ketki Mahabaleshwarkar
Nov 27, 20206 min read
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“Where-are-you-really-from ism”
Ketki Mahabaleshwarkar explores the question that we have all faced - "Where are you REALLY from?"
Ketki Mahabaleshwarkar
Oct 30, 20205 min read
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My Identity: Racism, Conflict and Resolution as a British Indian woman
Laasya Shekaran dissects her identity as a South Asian living in the diaspora
Laasya Shekaran
Sep 28, 202012 min read
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#LetsTalkColorism: Icons to know!
Aleesa Nazeer highlights some South Asian icons who have been involved in the fight against colourism.
Pardesi
Sep 24, 20202 min read
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#LetsTalkColorism Op-Ed: On Colorism
Sophia Saeed discusses her interaction with colourism and how this has led to her completing her final year dissertation on the subject.
Sophia Saeed
Sep 24, 20204 min read
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"I’ve had people pigeonhole me and force me to choose one culture over the other" - Lana Patel
We had the chance to talk to Lana Patel, an Afro-Indo-Caribbean trans woman, who is an advocate for the equality of trans lives.
Pardesi
Sep 18, 20207 min read
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