By: Ehtesham Rehmani I wish to experience the world as I really am. Its beauty, its forests, its mountains, its rivers, its classrooms, its cities, its festivals, its stories, its Godliness. I wish to surround myself with the world, I wish to eat, to dance, to sing, to pray, to live the life I’m destined to. My parents, my siblings, my friends, my lovers. Soon enough, they’ll all see their beloved thrive.

By Anushay Babar Every year we must feign enthusiasm for an independence- applicable to only a faction of the population: straight, Sunni men. The reason for this conviction became ever so pronounced owing to the events that unfolded just outside Minar e Pakistan: 400 men, supposedly in the name of…

By Ayman Fuad In today’s socio-political climate, the importance of sex education globally has increased dramatically. However, it remains a concept predominantly confined to the Global North, evading the Global South where postcolonial legacies of religious strife, political suppression and lack of freedom of speech deem this subject a taboo…

By Aiza Nadeem ‘Revenge Porn’ has been popularised to describe instances of someone releasing images and videos taken of or by another without their consent. …

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By Urhamish Ansari About The Artist I am Urhamish Ansari, graduated from Multan College of Arts, B.Z University Multan in 2012 major in sculpture, continuing up with MFA (sculpture) from University of Punjab, Lahore in 2019. As an artist, I work to develop sculptures that speak to me and to others as well…

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By Tehseen Khan Artist’s Statement: Being an Eastern girl living in an Islamic country and coming from a middle-class family-where people think of western influences as taboo- is the topic of my work. The topic has been a challenging one to communicate to my family, reasoning that wearing western clothes does not make a person inherently like them. I mix and match western and eastern clothes, as many do now. The crux of my work is communicating that influences from other cultures do not result in forgetting your own. The only thing one needs to remember is to never lose the taste of the culture that one embodies, and that diverse influences do not directly result in a loss of that, but rather, an expansion.

By Anushay Babar ‘The Day I became a Woman’ is a film directed by Marzieh Meshkini. It revolves around the struggle of the women of Iran, shown from the lens of women of different ages. It emphasises the oppression that they experience on the most trivial matters and events. …