By: Nadia Kamies July 7, 2021August 3, 2021 EMPOWERMENT, FEMINISM, LIFEempowerment, imposter syndrome, public speaking, racism, role models, sexism, voices, women of colorLeave a Comment

Voices Leak Identities: On Speaking Up

Featured Illustration: Camila Rosa Voices leak identities, someone told me recently when I confessed to being terrified of public speaking. I had been asked to present a lecture on the cultural aspects of slavery, for an online seminar. In spite of feeling confident about the topic, I was aware of a familiar pervasive feeling of…

By: Ina Pan March 22, 2021August 3, 2021 CULTURE, OPINION, POLITICSLeave a Comment

Asian Women Are Not Your Punchline

Featured Illustration: Phung Banh When I was eight, I visited my relatives in China for the first time in five years. I’d gone with my entire family. Much of the trip lives in hazy memory, born out of blazing summer days and in sweltering tresses of palm trees. It feels almost psychedelic now, looking back…

By: Asia Khatun January 9, 2021August 3, 2021 CULTURE, MENTAL HEALTH, OPINION9 Comments

Unburdening From Intergenerational Trauma: A First-Gen Journey

Featured Illustration: Hanifa Abdul Hameed First-generation immigrant household. South Asian. Eldest daughter. I am sure that some of you are more than familiar with the life that that entails. Many of us have grown up hearing how our parents’ and grandparents’ generation struggled to create a better life for us having moved halfway across the…

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Noor Unnahar: At the Intersection of Poetry and Art

By: Tejashree Murugan September 10, 2021September 11, 2021

LITERATURE, POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS#artists, art, art journal, conversation, fashion, find your voice, instagram, instapoetry, interview, New Names for Lost Things, Noor Unnahar, poetry, yesterday I was the moonLeave a Comment

Featured Images: Noor Unnahar Born and raised in Pakistan, Noor Unnahar is a best-selling poet and visual artist. She is currently pursuing her BFA from Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, an art school by the sea in Karachi. She works with a number of mediums (photography, illustration, journaling, collages, and more!) and creates works…

How One Organization is Redefining Mental Health for South Asians

By: Aleenah Ansari September 8, 2021September 8, 2021

CULTURE, EMPOWERMENT, MENTAL HEALTHLeave a Comment

Featured Illustration: Anatolii Babii A lot of entrepreneurs are motivated to create the resources they needed when they were younger, and Poonam Rahman is no exception. Growing up as a Bangladeshi American and Muslim, she remembers being bullied for her name and ethnic background. “When I sought out support at my high school, I realized…

I will be Billing The Peddler of Pretence for my Time

By: Thaea Deilami September 7, 2021September 8, 2021

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Featured Image: Evan Fitzer I am not my lover’s keeper If his happiness is dependent on me Then I am not to answer for it I will not be expected to fix him For last time I was addressed, I was “my love” not “Dr. Deilami” the therapist And it is funny that in…

My First Poem Was Titled ‘Futility’

By: Thaea Deilami September 7, 2021September 19, 2021

MENTAL HEALTH, POETRY & PROSELeave a Comment

Featured Image: Joe deSousa White caps of snow on the roof, pure and tranquil, and maybe I will, lay on this roof a little while longer to numb the continuous hunger of an eating binge that only serves to placate the momentous desire to act preemptively and seek an end Until snide words can no…

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By: Thaea Deilami September 7, 2021September 19, 2021

POETRY & PROSELeave a Comment

Featured Image: Vitor Monthay Look at you So progressive that one could almost convince themselves that they weren’t being herded into the Zoo brigade from hell Pardon my skepticism but I could not be bothered to have to sit a compliant performer at your spectacle another tune of self-celebration as you are cheered for mounting…

The Graveyard of Empires

By: JSJ September 6, 2021September 8, 2021

POETRY & PROSE, WORLD ISSUES#poetry, afghanistan, culture, current events1 Comment

Featured Image: Alizeh Ahmad We will win. We will win. We will win. We will win. “It is in our nature, in our blood” Sticks and stones will break my bones When stones are beaten into the skulls of children for 40 years. When sticks are stabbed into the sockets of men, women, and children.…

Pinterest Boards and Our Want to be Picturesque

By: Khwahish Khan September 5, 2021September 6, 2021

LIFE, OPINIONaesthetics, beauty standards, chaotic academia, classic academia, cottage core, Dark Academia, human behavior, human tendencies, light academia, opinion, perfection, picturesque, pinterest, pinterest boardsLeave a Comment

If you are a Pinterest user, you’re probably aware of how addicting it is to create new boards. A new obsession calls for a new board, so does a desire, an aesthetic and sometimes just the want to save something. For those unfamiliar with Pinterest, if I had to describe the application in a sentence,…

Power or Peace?

By: Aphrodite Evans September 4, 2021September 8, 2021

FEMINISM, OPINION, POETRY & PROSELeave a Comment

Featured Illustration: Hepburn Shire Council I was looking through my journal from this past February 2021 and while most of it was begging the universe for a puppy, or to meet the Avengers cast, this one thought stuck out to me, and I thought it would be best to write about it briefly. I should…

The Police Don’t Care About Women, And It’s Killing Us

By: Zoe Bracegirdle September 3, 2021September 8, 2021

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Featured Illustration: Niki Groom When details emerged about Wayne Couzens’ criminal past, many of us were left wondering why he wasn’t stopped before taking Sarah Everard’s life. The answer lies in the hotbed of institutional misogyny within the police. Content warning: femicide, sexual assault, sexual harassment. A story we know all too well. . .…