How do you describe nothing?My 21st birthday I spent crying in the bathroom. I couldn’t bear the realisation that I’d only just begun life, that I had the whole rest…Oct 5, 2023Oct 5, 2023
onslaughtit started as a pitter patter. then streaks cut shapes across the windows, splitting dust, separating particles of still earth. and then…Sep 19, 2023Sep 19, 2023
Why ‘Happy Valley’ is the worst high-rated TV show I’ve ever seenIt’s plots and characters like these that make it impossible to actually protect vulnerable women.Jul 31, 2023Jul 31, 2023
ThawI didn’t think I had so much condensed pain. It had been solidified, kept tight in a box somewhere. But then the heart warmed and the…Jan 20, 2023Jan 20, 2023
There is nothing but me leftI know why I stayed with you. Because the alternative was loneliness. This kind - the aching in your bones, the starving desperation…Oct 2, 2022Oct 2, 2022
Citizenship and exile: the politics of national exclusionBut how does the narrative of nationhood serve to mobilise public support for the expulsion and exile of natives?Jul 18, 2022Jul 18, 2022
UntitledIt’s strange how fallible we are. I’d built up strength, like a tree digging deep into the soil for its roots. I’d grown fervent. Unfurled…Jun 1, 2022Jun 1, 2022
Beyond the Gender Binary in BollywoodIs Bollywood feminist or patriarchal? I argue that it is both: feminist and patriarchal.May 23, 2022May 23, 2022
Published inAn Injustice!How Enlightenment Thinkers Framed the Original ‘Cancel Culture’ as ‘Progress’ and ‘Civilisation’Why the ‘cancel culture’ debate fails to recognise how European thought has erased cultures and histories that don’t fit European norms.Apr 5, 2022Apr 5, 2022