A Sea of Buttons

By: Kulsoom Mohammad
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTSLeave a Comment on A Sea of Buttons

Time is everything. Time is nothing. Time is the invisible that is tangible, told through seconds making minutes making days. Making up lives. Lives revolve around the clock, moving closer and closer to an end. The end of a day with a beautiful sunset or maybe a night where everything turns to darkness. Mine ended…

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The Dangerous New World of Social Media Police: Freedom — Terms and Conditions Applied

By: Alizah Hashmi
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The argument is often made that social media is a harbinger of freedom of expression into the 21st century — but is it really free? This is not to implicate the online troll armies that will threaten rape and plunder if the illegal occupation of a regime they support is questioned. There is something that…

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Healthcare Gaslighting: The System That Abandoned Me

By: Sosun Mubbashar
HEALTH & WELLNESS, OPINION, Leave a Comment on Healthcare Gaslighting: The System That Abandoned Me

“Healthcare gaslighting” is a new term that has emerged into many dictionaries. I am sure we have all heard of doctors undermining their patients’ pain and worries by brushing them aside. Many women have come forward to share their experiences with doctors not believing their pain. Nonetheless, I am sure this happens with men too.…

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FWD: Lament the micro aggressions

By: Hasheemah Afaneh
CULTURE, POETRY & PROSE, 1 Comment on FWD: Lament the micro aggressions

Some of my colleagues and I received an e-mail from the Diversity and Inclusion committee at my workplace, also my alma mater, titled “FWD: Policy on micro aggressions”, asking for feedback. I read the few pages, and all the micro aggressions my family, my friends, and myself have been subject to (and we too may…

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Purchasing (Private) Education in Pakistan

By: Alizah Hashmi
OPINION, WORLD ISSUES, Leave a Comment on Purchasing (Private) Education in Pakistan

UN sustainable development goal 4.1 demands the provision of ‘free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education’ to all boys and girls. Education is our remedy to social ills and a golden pass to an inclusive, prosperous future. The problem is that education today is not free or equitable; it is almost without exception a…

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Pride in a Conservative Corner of Europe

By: Júlia Bálint
LGBTQ+, OPINIONLeave a Comment on Pride in a Conservative Corner of Europe

Owing to the month of Pride, several countries around the world hold bubbly, colourful demonstrations to publicly celebrate that love is love, no matter one’s gender. How does this idea born out of liberal thinking reconcile with the self-proclaimed illiberal and conservative government of Hungary? It doesn’t. Even though events such as Pride, which go…

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An Ode to Disneyland

By: Samia Majid
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A society constructed on artifice. If we collectively elevate the superficial and champion those people valued solely in terms of vanity and social standing, what remains tangible or real? The clones are carefully constructed personas, self-assured of their uniqueness. We learn to individualize the blank slate of an online presence, refining and buffing our narcissism,…

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From the Annals of Privilege

By: Alizah Hashmi
CULTURE, WORLD ISSUESLeave a Comment on From the Annals of Privilege

You’re a student with no talents — the one that doesn’t know how to sing, or play the piano, or ice-skate. You can’t debate because your arguments don’t come out the way they sound in your head. The only thing about you that sometimes peaks are your grades. You want to be athletic and confident…

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