Amrit Kaur (better known as Jamz on social media) pens to paper her mental health journey. This is a student story of struggle, resilience, courage and success. In sharing this account we hope to encourage […]
Partition: The Lost Heer Project
Born in Delhi, India and now living in Canada, Harleen Singh is a historian and scholar working on the ‘Lost Heer Project’, a research venture uncovering hidden histories through the art of storytelling. He archives […]
Rupinder Kaur: Caste in Pataal Lok, Panjab and the Diaspora
Pataal Lok (2020) is a crime investigation Amazon Prime series produced by the Indian film actress Anushka Sharma. After its release, earlier this year, many Indians and diaspora Sikhs took to social media to air their […]
Baby Brain Memoirs on Mental Health & Down’s Syndrome
Baby Brain Memoirs I first started blogging as an outlet for making sense of my feelings that I can only describe as being alien to me at the time. I experienced this straight after the […]
Interview: Managing Mental Health in a Pandemic
Harpreet Sanghera is a team manager working for a leading organisation in mental health in the West Midlands. Her role comes with the responsibility of a nineteen member staff who are each responsible for the […]
Pamli weds Sarah: PS Love Wins
Pamli and Sarah are in a mixed race same-sex marriage. Sarah is British Irish Jamaican Turkish and Pamli is British Indian Punjabi. The two met in 2015 and married on the 12th of April in […]
The Diaspora Screen Media Network
The Diaspora Screen Media Network (DSMN) is a research project headed by Professor Janet Wilson (Principal Investigator), Professor Rajinder Dudrah (Co Investigator) and Dr David Simmons (Research Co-Ordinator). DSMN explores the new developments taking place […]
BCU Symposium: Sholay at 45
Following on from my blog on the iconic Bollywood film Sholay (1975), and the call for papers for the ‘Sholay at 45’ symposium at Birmingham City University (BCU), I share with all interested parties the full programme for the […]
Dr. Nadia discusses Faith and Therapy
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 […]
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