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Poems

Not Your Spice Girl

Much of South Asian literature is themed around food – milk and honey, saffron and cinnamon, jalebis and gulab jamuns, turmeric and mangos. Our food is electric in hues, decadent, an explosion of flavour, medicinal in nature.

I get why food takes centre stage in South Asian literature; alot of our parents expressed their love through food. While South Asian cooking is a part of my identity – after all, our ancestral land was colonized in some part for those commodities – it’s not a significant part of my story as a person.

Tags heritage, Lahore, london, motherland, Pakistan, parents, poem, poetry, spices, turmeric, woc, womenwriters

Miscellaneous

Femme Inspiration: Mikala Monsoon

Post author By Maz Halima
Post date October 2, 2017
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I wish I wasn’t an anxiety ridden introvert – I’d host a monthly salon, where all my favourite creative voices from the internet and beyond could have a meeting of minds. We’d change the world if we shed the doubt that mundane, relentless adulthood has a way of beating into us. The benefit of expanding your emotional and creative intelligence has become so underrated in a world of capitalism and rushing to work and scrolling through an endless sea of digital nonsense and never having time for anything because we’re all oh-so-busy competing to be the most productive – but what are we doing it all for?

Tags Glasgow, Kardashoon, love, Mikala Monsoon, Poems, poetry, relationships, Scotland, Scottish writers, women writers, writing

Miscellaneous

Femme Inspiration: Yrsa Daley-Ward

Post author By Maz Halima
Post date September 26, 2017
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I appreciate that recycling words by other people is what Tumblr is for (isn’t it? I actually don’t understand Tumblr), but sometimes I find literary pieces that inspire me so much, I just want to share them with you guys. Almost like a poetry club, because I have no friends to do a real life one with, ok? Cool, let’s do it.

Tags Bone, Favourite authors, Penguin, poc poets, Poems, poetry, The Guardian, women writers, writers of colour, Yrsa Daley-Ward

Miscellaneous

Frida Kahlo on being strange

Post author By Maz Halima
Post date August 24, 2017
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I’ve been obsessed with Frida Kahlo for as long as I can remember and I always want to write about why – but so complex is her lingering aura that remains, I can’t find the right words yet. Anyways, I saw this quote that is allegedly from an extract of her diary and it really resonated with me, so I wanted to share it regardless.

Tags art, Frida Kahlo, poem, poetry, strange

Thinkpieces

It’s a London Thing

I wrote something recently about the London Bridge terror attacks for MuslimGirl.com, which you can read now.

I won’t expand on it here, but please do have a read and let me know your thoughts on it. And in light of it, I’d like to share some of my favourite quotes on my hometown – and in my opinion, the greatest city on earth. Go ahead, @ me bruh.