Nikita Asnani
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)...
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Saarika Rao
- Aug 9, 2021
- 5 min
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...
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Arka Raina
- Jul 21, 2021
- 5 min
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...
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Jasmine Joshi
- Apr 3, 2021
- 10 min
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...
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Kaneeka Kapur
- Feb 27, 2021
- 5 min
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.
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Joelle Charan
- Feb 25, 2021
- 5 min
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...
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Anu Kumar
- Feb 23, 2021
- 5 min
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...
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Andrea
- Feb 23, 2021
- 4 min
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...
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Ketki Mahabaleshwarkar
- Jan 31, 2021
- 6 min
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...
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Keerti Tadimeti
- Jan 18, 2021
- 6 min
Kalaakriti: NehaxStitch
The Kalaakriti series aims to highlight the stories of different artists with South Asian backgrounds. In today’s installation, check out...
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Avani Modi Sarkar
- Dec 21, 2020
- 6 min
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".
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Ketki Mahabaleshwarkar
- Nov 27, 2020
- 6 min
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.
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Ketki Mahabaleshwarkar
- Oct 30, 2020
- 5 min
“Where-are-you-really-from ism”
Ketki Mahabaleshwarkar explores the question that we have all faced - "Where are you REALLY from?"
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Laasya Shekaran
- Sep 28, 2020
- 12 min
My Identity: Racism, Conflict and Resolution as a British Indian woman
Laasya Shekaran dissects her identity as a South Asian living in the diaspora
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Pardesi
- Sep 24, 2020
- 2 min
#LetsTalkColorism: Icons to know!
Aleesa Nazeer highlights some South Asian icons who have been involved in the fight against colourism.
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Sophia Saeed
- Sep 24, 2020
- 4 min
#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.
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Pardesi
- Sep 18, 2020
- 7 min
"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.
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