Out of thousands of people who would come across the post only a handful of people would reach here. Welcome! I have been expecting you. I wrote this just for you, solely for you, so that you may understand. SEE: the difference me and YOU? It always has been just me and you. You fall, … Continue reading SEE by Zain Terror
Journal
The Obsession with Fair Skin and Unattainable Beauty Standards
Let’s flashback to the year 2015. A Fair and Lovely ad is playing in the background, advertising skin colour as a step-ladder to success – the fairer your skin, the higher up you are on the ladder – and I’m thirteen years old, standing in front of a mirror, and deconstructing every way in which … Continue reading The Obsession with Fair Skin and Unattainable Beauty Standards
Jashan-e-Azaadi: The way I see it
An attempt at planting a seed of realisation. 14th August. A day to celebrate our freedom, a day to feel liberated. What are we really celebrating though? 60-70% of women that face some sort of abuse? The 50,000 innocent women killed at the hands of domestic abusers? The thousands of women who are disabled or … Continue reading Jashan-e-Azaadi: The way I see it
We Deserve Better – CAIE Result 2020
We have heard time and time again that grades on a piece of paper will not define you. That may be true, but these grades, these letters on a pulp of wood, do define our future. On 11th August 2020, we were presented with probably the most controversial results on behalf of Cambridge according to … Continue reading We Deserve Better – CAIE Result 2020
Quarantine Must Reads
Why do I read? The “why” in this question is consequential. For me it's because I belong to the species I don't necessarily like to associate myself with. That is why reading serves as an escape for me from the daily responsibilities that were bestowed upon me when I first started associating myself with the … Continue reading Quarantine Must Reads
A Letter To You
Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault Dear Friend, This is a letter to you. You, always a daughter, a sister, a wife, a mother, a friend, or a girlfriend first, a human much later. As little girls, we are all taught lowered voices, bowed heads, quiet laughs. We're taught to be small, take as little space as … Continue reading A Letter To You
The Sixth Plate
The sixth plate,The empty seat on the dining table,The toothbrush, the belt, the sweater,All still in place.I do not possess the courage to move you,To face you yet,As soon as my skin touches your surface,You may shatter into pieces. The sixth plate,The sixth glass,You are part of the setYet you are alone,Unwillingly alone.You belong in … Continue reading The Sixth Plate
50 Days
It has been 50 days since I started social distancing. It feels as if we have entered a different time and era; I suppose we have. Throughout these 50 days I have had many phases and at times it is hard to believe that it has been only a matter of days. I am writing … Continue reading 50 Days
Story Time
10:30/ I-8 Today, like most our days, we set off on an adventure. An unplanned, unorganized but undoubtedly venturesome day awaits us. Our automobile for this fine day will be movee, a car that falls within a home’s category because it feels so. All we know is each other and that once Zainy develops his … Continue reading Story Time
Life 1-0 Us
Today marks the end of what has seemed like the longest week of my life. Only just hearing that somebody has been diagnosed with corona, consumes your mind with feelings of stress, anxiety, and fear but let me tell you, those words are a huge understatement for what goes on inside your head when members … Continue reading Life 1-0 Us
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