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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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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Solitary Consignment
Features Editor Maria Amir writes of the silent battles being waged between art and soul
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Letters to Strangers: Verbage
In which the author contemplates the fragility of writing…
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Cutting Through The Fat
“Perhaps the most annoying pro-choice synonym I have discovered for being fat is “bubblyâ€. As if the extra poundage somehow magically morphs into excess humor and verbosity,” writes Features Editor Maria Amir in the Winter 2014 issue.
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Letters to Strangers: Così Fan Tutte
In this week’s edition of Letters to Strangers, Maria Amir muses about the prisons we build for ourselves, listening to opera, and learning to befriend other women.
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Letters to Strangers: Sacred Spaces
In this month’s column, The Missing Slate’s Maria Amir writes of sacred spaces – the car, a new role, and the awakening that they perpetuate.
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Letters to Strangers: Shifting Allegiances
Letters to Strangers is a series where Features Editor Maria Amir writes to a faceless stranger of the very intimate and the very public…
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Free Falling
In exquisite prose, Features Editor Maria Amir ruminates ‘freedom’, what it means now and whether an absolute definition is even merited.
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Letters to Strangers: Betweens
In this week’s column, Maria Amir contemplates the surprising freedom in being a divorcee in Pakistan…
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