Author

Usraat Fahmidah

7 pieces

LIFE
Here’s to 2020
Featured Illustration: Mariah Parker As the last few hours of 2020 pass while loud music blasts in the background and all across…
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UNCATEGORIZED
Gen Z, Social Media And Cyberbullying: An Unsupervised Landscape
Featured Illustration: Alex Marino Recently, some Facebook posts have been making rounds on my newsfeed. Comments flooded the posts criticizing a girl…
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CULTURE
Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America: A Book Review
Featured Image: Bloomberg CityLab Bengali Harlem — a reconstructed narrative of the long-forgotten South Asians in America. Do you know about the…
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EMPOWERMENT
A Sailor Cruising Through Failure
Featured Illustration: Vero Romero “Thank you for submitting to ‘X’. After careful consideration, it was not chosen for publication. This does not…
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CULTURE, POLITICS
Between the World and Me: A book by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Featured Image: The Atlantic Have you ever felt fearful of your body growing up? Have you ever felt unsettled with your own…
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POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Unusual Customs
Featured Artwork: Zoe Harveen Kaur bhabi, your daughter has a dull — she pauses for a moment and says — please don’t…
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CULTURE, POLITICS
Colourism and Racism from the Perspective of a South-Asian
Featured Artwork: Ojo Agi Lupita Nyong’o once famously said, “Colourism is the daughter of racism.” Why is it relevant, you ask? Being…
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