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 […]
Part One: Muslim and Gay
I interviewed British Pakistani Muslim Adil Khan just weeks after he had come out to his friends and family about being gay. Adil was somewhat tense yet animated as he recounted his experiences and told […]
Women of colour in Film and TV: Script Editor Naz Ahmed on defying the odds
MY JOURNEY AS A CREATIVE WOMAN WHO DEFYED THE ODDS… As with any journey, I guess one should start right at the very beginning. So, nearly thirty years ago, I remember telling someone about my […]
