What Took Us to War
“What took us to war has again begun,/ and what took us to war/ has opened its wide mouth/ again to confuse us.” By Patricia Jabbeh Wesley.
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Sometimes, I Close My Eyes
“sometimes, this is the way of the world,/ the simple, ordinary world, where things are/ sometimes too ordinary to matter. Sometimes,/ I close my eyes, so I don’t have to see the world.” By Patricia Jabbeh Wesley.
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The Score
“The person on the floor was unmistakeably dead. It looked like a woman; she couldn’t be sure yet…” By Hawa Jande Golakai.
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Not Just A Phase
“…in the workplace, a person can practically be forced out of their job by discrimination, taking numerous days off for fear of their physical safety and mental wellbeing.” Aaron Grierson confronts prejudice against bisexuality.
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Unmasking Female Circumcision
“Though the origins of the practice are unknown, many medical historians believe that FGM dates back to at least 2,000 years.” Gimel Samera looks at the brutality of FGM.
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Talking Gender
“In fact it is often through the uninformed use of such words that language becomes a tool in perpetuating sexism and violence against women in society.” Sana Hussain on gender and language.
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The Birth of Bigotry
“The psychology of prejudice demands that we are each our own moral police”. Maria Amir on the roots of bigotry and intolerance.
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The Groupthink of Marital Discourse
At a time where “femininity” is weighed by the proclivity of procreation, the author ponders what place “the white picket fence” fantasy merits in Pakistan today.
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How Adult Are You?
Ghausia Rashid Salam assesses young adult fiction and asks why grown adults are so drawn to the genre.
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More Than 50 Shades of Grey
“Certainty needs to be upheld and so all inquiry in its midst must be regulated so as not to topple some invisible, delicate balance of floundering egos insisting upon their “only truthâ€.”
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