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it's crazy to have a lover be your first reader 🧿
It was her birthday week and we finally received the author's copy. What began 6 years ago as a groundbreaking story on recreational drug use in Pakistan has now evolved into its first ever piece of research on psychedelic use & gender fluidity.
I'm so proud of you, my love. 💜
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Every time I complete a Pakistani Television drama from the 90s I am at a loss of words on how badly we messed up. There's independent & witty female protagonists, dressed not too feminine, questioning society's obsession with marriage/men,working & studying & running their life?
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This one's for my mother who wasn't allowed to go to grad school because marriage was more important. She's a Bachelor's in Education and went on to run her own school in Karachi after years of being told that women can be nothing more than a home maker. A Ghazala and Zahid win!!
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My brother voted for the first time and picked Alamgir from PTI because "he fixed parks we walk in and I play football in gulshan" 😭😭😭😭
Our people want SO little and yet
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I literally cannot @ how our brains make us think and feel the wildest of thoughts for a whole week before the period arrives and one day into bleeding, women are like wow clarity yes I am the boss bich you never seen, I'm the smartest, hottest, I'm invincible, I'm the moment
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Sometimes I really just marvel at the intellectual capital that rich kids are born into -- like your parents knew which universities are good? What courses to pick? What books to read?
Mine only knew which job would help you get by, a little better than the generation above
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I don't get why women have to change their names after the marriage, like apka baap badal gaya kia?
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my partner after a year of fwb, 8 months of dating, 5 months of being married and 2 months of living in, finally just wants to know what I think about him
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Interviewed candidates for internship at my workplace & it always reminds me of how enthused undergrads are to bring all their fun personalities & important work to the world, before capitalism kills every bit of joy & passion in the next 2 years.. truly 19 yo manal was trippin'
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it's fascinating how your body just decides to shut down after a prolonged event of stress & uncertainty comes to an end. I can simply not get out of bed because my body has announced that it needs rest, as if all those sleepless nights accumulated to present me this long slumber
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As a girl who went to a private university & was stripped off her scholarship on the basis of what clothes I wore on campus, I raise my voice for safe and moral-police-free campuses. I wouldn't have had to start working so young to pay my fee, if I was not sexualized on campus
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Dadi recalls meeting dada -
'hum to sirf paani peene gaye thay aik dawat k baad apni saheli k ghar. tumhare dada chat pe kabootar ura rahe thay, unhone dekh liya.bas wo din tha aur uske baad, unki ammi humare ghar akar baat pakki kar gayin. unki nazar hi nai hat'ti thi mujh se.'
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Someone really needs to tell Generation that teachers in Pakistan don't get paid enough to buy a 7k ka jora
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The whole joke about people of colour heading to the airport too early is actually racist bec all airports treat us like trash no matter how legal and safe your documents and status are, so you obvs head there with a ton of anxiety and nothing else
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My house help was told by her husband that if she goes to Aurat March,she will come back home to those three words that she will dread the most for the rest of her life.
A man ready to divorce his wife, who has borne him 3 kids,JUST over a march.
So, I march for her.
#WhyIMarch
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the beauty of living in pakistan is that you can work fulltime & be stuck in commute for 3 hours every day, get harassed every time you're on a street, face gender bias at work, get paid less than men & not have the freedom to go out for late dinners-check your male privilege sir
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Shaking, crying, throwing up because a cousin who collects Karachi antiques just gave me a postcard with my school from 1905 on it 🥺 as a graduation gift 😭😭😭
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I love when people see photos from my own wedding events and ask ARE YOU GETTING MARRIED???
no asad, I casually dress like a main character wherever I go
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To grow up in a hyper sunni-deobandi household & witness the hate my elders have for an entire sect, is one of the main reasons I fell away from organized religion.Even now, to exist in this house during Ashura is so angering but all I can do is apologize for them, super ashamed.
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There has been a terrifying report about a sexual assault of a student on the premises of a campus at one of the biggest universities in
#Islamabad
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The building was inaugurated this month, and the administration is trying to bury the matter by silencing the students who are+
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Did you all know tiny kids at Lahore Grammar School get yoga classes as a part of their curriculum, whereas I, a troubled adult can still not afford yoga?
Daddy's cash is truly a great thing.
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My 58 yo abba just pulled a 'meri valida ijazat nahi de raheen' to a neighbor uncle and we're q u a k i n g
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I'm literally not made for a long distance relationship someone just give him an education/history related job in NYC 😭😭😭
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yes churails was great but my only hot take is that none of the women in the entirety of the show got their period??? itna behenchara jahan hota hai wahan pads exchange to zaroor hotay hain, dates bhi discuss hoti hain, cramps ko galiyan bhi di jati hain but oh a man wrote it 🥺
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Is sheer khorma on Eid an Urdu speaking/Mohajir/Karachi thing only?
Please explain!!
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No one:
Rich kids: but tbh I'm middle class too and I understand all your struggle I might just be a little privileged but yes there was a time we only had one car and one AC in our home and we all slept in the same room it was so congested, i am so thankful for my mansion now MA
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do they realize google/android phones have had this for ages
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I live in the same house as my abuser is
#WhyIMarch
#WhyIMarch
because my abuser is still roaming freely and I have no mechanisms for getting justice. Because practically every other woman I meet has experienced something similar. I march for my sisters and myself and in the face of those who covertly abuse us.
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I love how men can romanticise marriage and companionship jaise wo ayegi to meri zindagi main bahaar ayegi bsdk ye batao tumhare khandan main jab log uski individuality ko respect nai karenge to tum khamoshi se beith k muskurao ge hi na?
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Report him here:
He works at
737 Park Ave # 1C, New York, NY 10021
212-300-9863
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I just miss the sheer spontaneity of my life in Karachi, where we could call friends up every weekend & be available for each other. The idea of a community you could turn to, is so precious, and hard to replace/reproduce, when you're in a city everyone fantasizes loneliness in
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This 'she/he's outta my league' narrative is SO saddening. WHAT is this league? Who set these standards? Just try and be better? And if the person still does not like you, they just have different preferences. Why belittle yourself for someone's else's idea of a perfect partner?
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I really don't know why y'all talk about mangoes so much when there's cherries, falsay, jaamun, aaru, khoobani, alu bukharay in Karachi summer, reigning in all their glory !!!
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I wish I wish with all my heart for Pakistani television shows from the 70s-90s to get subtitles so I can share it faaaar and wideee, because wow our TV was wayyy ahead of it's time
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Invest in your female friendships. That's it. That's the tweet
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All this OST talk and I just keep thinking about how great the Baaghi OST was. Also Jackson Heights, Main Abdul Qadir Hoon, Noor Ul Ain, Mataa e Jaan, Ye Mera Deewanapan Hai, Aakhri Station, Khuda aur Muhabbat, Ullu Baraye Farokht Nahi, Diyar e Dil, Dastaan . pls add your faves
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'no one leaves home unless
home is the mouth of a shark' - warsan shire
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Best news today:
Dunya News stated that it has decided to remove Haider from the Mazaaq Raat owing to the serious nature of charges levelled against him in the FIR.
Yaasss jobless kardo inko
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Hi, an artisan based in Bhit Shah whom I've often bought block prints from reached out and isn't doing so well because of the pandemic. He has some of the best dyes and patterns. If you're interested, you can message him and he will send you more designs.
0301 3623494
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My love
@rozenameh
is now a Historian of colonial South Asia and if you'd like to read his brilliant thesis on the surveillance of subaltern political expression 📣📣 (basically gossip against the whites during the first world war in Sindh/Bombay 🤭) hit him up!! 🥳🥳
#mySFUgrad
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Honestly so f*cking tired of this virus, Zoom fatigue, general pandemic anxiety. Unwell old parents. Ended up in a hospital today, only to be worrrying about the 4am class and how my response paper won't be up by 7pm. All strength has left my body.
I am done.
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Realizing I have a +1 for work events where I can pause speaking in English and rest my jaw and laugh in Urdu after a million hours ... 10/10
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Sometimes I really don't meet people because fuel is so expensive and my middle class ass can just not afford a 30-35km drive every other day.
Dear, it's not you, it's the inflation, I swear.
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A huge part of the 1st gen middle class parents have tried to uproot their social capital by sending their kids to O/A level schools even when they'd only be having daal roti at home for months. Going to a good school on scholarship/study loans cannot be equated to being elite.
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not me crying physical tears because my kaali daal chawal finally taste exactly like my mother's now
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Why don't our salaries increase when there is a hike in fuel prices,
@ImranKhanPTI
? Because all my money has been going into Careem fare for about a year (no mass transit system) and if you voice your concerns, all you get to hear is, 'itnay masle hain to chor do na Pakistan'
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I literally can't English @ this point in my life. Nai likha ja raha kuch bhi. Fuck work places that take away your confidence and exploit you to the level of making you believe that you're worthless
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This eid, when you buy clothes, don't forget that a lot of brands have laid off workers without any prior notice or security. To benefit their sales means turning a blind eye towards thousands that were made jobless midst a pandemic.
Support small businesses instead!
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This is what powerful men get to do in this country. Remember this when a song of his comes up on youtube during the shuffle. Remember this when you think of coercion. Every time he shows up in an ad or wins an award. Remember what Ali Zafar did to the women of this country.
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Things you hear at a men's jeans store:
'bilkul chipki hui chahye, matlab apke bhai ka maal nazar aye.'
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before we lose twitter vanity 🫡🫡🫡
No Pakistani woman has ever looked good in a sari
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Imagine the horror of liking someone and them liking you back?!!
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Big girl got her work permit today and is officially open for bids (in NYC and remote). So pick me, choose me, love me! 🙅
I can research, write, produce, curate and photograph.
main interests: cinema studies, gender, migration, psychedelics and culture 🌸
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Here to tell miss rasheeda from class vi who called me loose character girl on folding my uniform sleeves that i still fold my sleeves and still don't give into societal norms hope you're doing o k a y
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My mom literally stood in front of her school's Gulmohar tree and stopped KMC from pulling it down.
I just want half her brave to get through this world, and I'll be okay.
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I have always struggled with writing personal essays, so making a whole exposè about my life wasn't so easy. I remember how tired I was, while writing this because the whole process was a lived reality, far too close to me. This piece changed me, for good.
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Do I really wanna get that masters or just don't wanna be dragged by emotional blackmail, into the institution of marriage
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So refreshing to talk to people who don't use big words to explain already complex ideas. Yes, we can be friends because your intelligence isn't solely based on your fancy education
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Oh my god Punjabi elites are actually terrifying... Accumulation of wealth really does mess you up, wow..
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I started resenting religion bec only men were allowed at mosques. only men had access to God, in a no women's land, we don't play cricket on the streets, we have no favourites, we pick jobs convenient to commute, of colleagues that won't harass us everyday based on what we wear
this might be a hot take but videos of men in streets and dancing on dhol or even inside mazaars bring me no joy or sense of community. I feel so resentful and envious. So angered at the glaring injustice of it all.
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ok but.. hear me out.. muslim women have been doing namaz+tarweeh at home since years, now that men have to sit through the cage that they ever so carefully built for us, they resort to idiotic measures as congregational prayers midst a pandemic??
SIT DOWN
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Washington sq park really said la ila ha illalah after a whole night of partying (relate)
Eid Mubarakkk 🔅
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aaj iftar ki table pe bl*sph*my law pe baat nikal ayi, love to see my smoll sibs make all the right arguments and leave the adults speechless even when I'm silently standing in a corner stirring some mango tang
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You don't have to put your workplace on a pedestal. It's just an organisation that pays you well, has an acceptable image, performs progressive politics, and does one good project every once in a while. But at the end of the day, it cares more about itself than you. Pls just stop
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What if I wore my new turtleneck and actually dress up, we go out, you get me flowers, we have beef burgers with cheese, you look like you maybe put some effort to look nice, and we get ice cream on our way back... as friends ..
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you know the kind of period pain where you even want to fight the AIR that touches you?
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No we're waiting for Mard march's statement defending usman
has there been any statement from aurat march etc?
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having to learn about all different sorts of beautification of a feminine body two days before your wedding is literally the most alienating experience for someone who doesn't even identify as one
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I felt there was a missing discourse around the exploitation of teachers in Pakistan and the glamour that is added by fashion brands to commodify professions without actually looking into their brutal realities -- wrote for the Images
"The least brands can do is make sure their corporate feminism is slightly digestible," writes
@ManalKhan0
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#GenerationPK
#EthicalFashion
Read:
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I hate to admit it but I've recently learnt that ammi was so right when she said ye phone rakh do saray kaam hojayen ge
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No one:
Desi men to their girlfriends: I will talk about everything my mother does better than you till I suffocate you out of the relationship because I have pledged to forever be a mama's boy and never grow up ---
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Yaar hum Karachi main rehte hain kia hogaya
I think people spend too much time staring into screens and not enough time drinking wine, tongue kissing, and dancing under the moon.
— Rachel Wolchin
artwork by
@fluffy2038
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Made a punjabi boy fall in love with me and left for my own personal growth. this one's for the muhajirs
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I've had abs and I've had soft tummy bulges but I promise if your worth is restricted to how you look to your partner, it's time to dump them ..
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I think it's so cool how people's parents can just visit them during their grad school when they're rich and bored? meanwhile this April, I almost died and my parents just saw me on video calls 😃😃 cuz travel visas are literally so expensive 😌
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This is finally happening. My short film, Baligh, is going to be up for screening at Lincoln Corner, Karachi on May 3, at 6pm.
@HERPakistan
has organized a talk to discuss the taboos that our society associates with menstruation. Show up and speak up! 🌸
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setting up my kitchen and thinking about the absolute worst day that gene weingarten had for calling us one spice
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Mother pulling out an anniversary gift for abba at 12am and him empty-handedly receiving it is also every desi man I've ever dated
Why r men ---
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This eid, let's not forget the 350+ people who lost their lives trying to make their lives better by resorting to that terrifying journey. The ship to the other side of the ocean was their only hope. Their families should not be grieving alone. It's all of us.
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This person my age married a boy and moved out. Doesn't work, just roams around Germany all day, has all the fancy food, I only see her Instagram to know more about fine dining in Berlin. She just got a new Samsung Galaxy S10 as a GIFT and now I'm just----- very happy for her
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Men are toxic to each other and base their friendship on the idea of jokes or night chillings only. Then those emotionally stunted men unload all their trauma to the first girl they become close friends with because she's ready to listen and not make fun, unlike his own kind.
TL;DR
Thoughts on female friendships
The popular opinion seems to be that men are generally better friends than women. This isn't something that only men say, but women too emphasize based on their personal experiences.
Now, my knee jerk reaction is to call bullshit on this.
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thinking of all the patriarchal bargains that the women around me and I go through. but finding joy in our crumbs should not be a sin. let us be.
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Had the most wholesome pizza date with parents where brother pulled jokes at my mother's crush from college days just as I mentioned my crush (who's obvs never noticed me) but also subtly we've made them oKaY with the idea of having crushes?
Is this Islamic republic of Pakistan
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guys you know when Zameer Ansari does dhaaga kabab that melt in your mouth with the crisp of their perfect poori parathas and imlii ki chutney and some pyaaz? T h a t
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This post on husbands never getting their wives gajray/flowers on SSP is making me so sad. who are these men, and where are they getting these amazing wives from? who choose to stay with them even after their zero effort in the marriage?
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Can't believe we're having to fundraise for an Olympic contender with one of the closest chances to win.. embarrassing
IMPORTANT: Arshad Nadeem needs a new javelin since the one he currently has is out of shape. He is our best chance of winning a medal at Olympics this year after a long gap of 32 years. Twitter do your thing, let's give our hero Arshad all the help he needs 🇵🇰✨
RTs appreciated.
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