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Noor Unnahar: At the Intersection of Poetry and Art
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 Read more
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How One Organization is Redefining Mental Health for South Asians
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 Read more
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I will be Billing The Peddler of Pretence for my Time
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 Read more
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My First Poem Was Titled ‘Futility’
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 Read more
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Pet
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 Read more
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The Graveyard of Empires
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. Read more
