Tell us about yourself and why you started a page about faith and mental health. I’m a Muslim Psychologist. This page is about an integration of faith and mental health as both are extremely important […]
Sholay & Slanguages: Kitne dialogues hai – in popular culture?
In 2020 Ramesh Sippy’s superhit film Sholay turns forty-five. The journal of South Asian Popular Culture have called for papers and presentations to be submitted for its one day symposium at Birmingham City University. Academics […]
MannMukti on Mental Health
Tell us about MannMukti and what prompted you to start the organisation? In the fall of 2015, I lost my childhood best friend to mental illness. I felt that what he went through could’ve […]
Interview: Surviving Marital Rape
On July 15th 2019 Mandeep Hayre shared her experience of trauma incited by sexual violence. In a powerful twitter thread Mani (her preferred name) owned her voice and story by calling out her rapist – her […]
Mental Health and Race: Dr. Tina Mistry
There is a lack of research on Black and Minority Ethnic/BME mental health and the ways in which the health care system is set up and challenged by some of the issues that arise from […]
Surviving male suicide as a loved one
This blog comes with a trigger warning. For the second entry in the mental health blog series I interview a South Asian man who tragically lost a family member to suicide and shortly after falls […]
Psychotherapist Aman Chohan discusses motherhood & mental health
Welcome to Part 1 of my ‘Mental Health’ blog series. This first entry is about understanding parental mental health and in particular that of a new mum who happens to work in the mental health […]
Slanguages, Hip-Hop a Russian Play, Punjabi Poetry and Oxford University
Oxford University hosted ‘Poetry in Motion’ last month at Wolfson College to academics, students, artists and creatives as part of their four-year-long research project Creative Multilingualism. Creative Multilingualism investigates the rich interdisciplinary connections between language, linguistic […]
Interview: Is there a denial of caste discrimination in India?
Since researching caste studies and sharing those findings on my social media pages I have learnt much about the experiences of my followers through online interactions. Initially I experienced a strong reluctance from people in […]
Faraz Arif Ansari on Filmmaking & Queer Identity
Faraz Arif Ansari is an Indian filmmaker and the director of Sisak, India’s first silent LGBT film. I came across his work at the first British Asian LGBT conference held in Birmingham in the UK […]
