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super interesting read on #Joyland by
and I can’t help but agree: Joyland is a film which features a trans character but is not a trans love story and people should not expect one
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Ignore the reviews — Joyland is more than just a trans love story |
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"the film’s layered exposés of Pakistani society are reduced to the latest progressive cause: trans activism. The mistreatment of women in Pakistan, meanwhile, is largely glossed over..part of a wider and worrying cultural trend..causes more palatable to Western progressives"
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For @unherd I wrote about the PHENOMENAL new Pakistani film ‘Joyland’ made by @KhoosatFilms. It is so so much more than just a trans love story, & its coverage in western media has been highly reductive of this beautiful piece of art. #Joyland #WomensDay unherd.com/2023/03/joylan
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Why is Joyland being promoted as a "trans love story"? |
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Western progressives won’t accept that social activism in Pakistan has to be more nuanced |
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For I wrote about the PHENOMENAL new Pakistani film ‘Joyland’ made by . It is so so much more than just a trans love story, & its coverage in western media has been highly reductive of this beautiful piece of art. #Joyland #WomensDay
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This is a devastating piece by in , in reaction to my recent GB News documentary
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If we are to understand what happened in Rotherham, we have to recognise the cultural problem with child abuse |
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The most difficult subject to report/read about and sure to attract the wrong type of reaction but i retweet nevertheless having personally met a victim of this type of abuse, which sadly is prevalent in this region
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Wrote about the Rotherham grooming gangs scandal in the UK and the Pakistani perpetrators behind the grizzly crimes. Researching, interviewing for, and writing this piece has no doubt altered my soul. Big thanks to @unherd for publishing it.
unherd.com/2023/02/pakist
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Disturbing read. If true (GBNews?) wonder how many victims of sex abuse remain unacknowledged within British Pakistani communities - it took long enough for authorities to act on original grooming cases.
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“For years some British Pakistanis have deliberately buried their heads in the sand about these predatory grooming gangs” | reports on child abuse in the Pakistani diaspora
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Wrote about the Rotherham grooming gangs scandal in the UK and the Pakistani perpetrators behind the grizzly crimes. Researching, interviewing for, and writing this piece has no doubt altered my soul. Big thanks to for publishing it.
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'75% of women and girls are employed in the nation’s unregulated agriculture sector. But in the inter-middle-class battle of Pakistani feminism, working-class issues hardly get any airtime.'
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Western-educated Pakistani feminists are trying to alienate working-class women by adopting trans ideology |
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"Concerned about how they’re portrayed on the global stage, elite Pak feminists want to signal to their comrades in the West: Look, we’re not the backwards and uncivilised country that we seem to be, we believe trans women are women." by
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🇵🇰From Abida Parveen, Mehdi Hassan, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and Ghulam Ali to Atif Aslam, so many of us have grown up on Pakistani music. Yet, Pakistani artists have struggled to monetize. wrote about how has the power to fix this.
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From Pakistan with love: Where to find authentic Pakistani food in Toronto foodism.to/features/karah via
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Stoked to have my feature on Toronto’s homegrown Pakistani restaurant franchise ‘Karahi Boys’ out in Foodism Magazine’s summer 2022 print issue! This has been a true passion project for me! If you’re in Toronto, get your free copy today in downtown! Link: s3.amazonaws.com/external_clips
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Spotify entered Pakistan one year ago. spoke with Pakistani musicians about how the streaming platform is changing the country’s music industry
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Thank you so much to , , , , & Alizeh Bashir for speaking with me about Spotify’s launch in Pakistan; it was an honour to discuss this topic with some of the most creative folks in the music business today.
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Had a great time reporting this for : one year after Spotify launched in Pakistan, what impact has it had on the music industry there? Many thanks to for green lighting my idea & guiding me through the editing process.
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Super stoked for this issue of @sadmag! I profiled the amazing artist and graphic designer @omargdraws about his Pakistan+ series of a surrealist, future Pakistan. The issue is available to buy in certain bookstores across Canada, and can also be ordered online through their site twitter.com/sadmag/status/…
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Super stoked for this issue of ! I profiled the amazing artist and graphic designer about his Pakistan+ series of a surrealist, future Pakistan. The issue is available to buy in certain bookstores across Canada, and can also be ordered online through their site
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Need something to look forward to? Join us for another weekend of art, beer & socially distanced good times as we release our new issue FOUND, & resurrect the oh-so-popular Disposable Camera Project 
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"Why did you give me these? You want to see me cry?"
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Across North America, young religious Muslims are turning to "matrimonial apps" to find a spouse. Some imams are calling it a "crisis."
With help from & others investigates what this trend means for #Islam in the US & Canada.
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Our November issue is here!
Great articles on Catholicism in police shows, #Muslim matchmaking, #Jewish humor, #evangelical media, religion reporting & MORE by , , & therevealer.org
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Have my longest reported feature to date out on today. Had a great time speaking to people (including an imam & 2 Muslim scholars) about the rise of online Muslim marriage/matchmaking platforms. Many thanks to for all his help
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We definitely need more lactation consultants in Pakistan. Let's spread the awareness.
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Pakistan has 50 million women of childbearing age, and only one globally certified person to help them feed their newborns. Zohra Kurji is a paediatric nurse at Hospital in Karachi, and the only certified practising lactation consultant in #Pakistan.
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Zohra Kurji is a pediatric nurse at Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi—and the only practicing lactation consultant in Pakistan certified by the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners.
buff.ly/3pEQMg0
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I'm glad to see more and more mothers in Pakistan will have the resources and support they need to breastfeed, if they so choose, thanks to the work of Zohra Kurji.
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There aren’t many resources for Pakistani moms who want to breastfeed. This lactation consultant—the country’s sole practitioner with gold-standard global credentials—wants to change that, @HinaTweetsNow reports. w/@ForeignPolicy. bit.ly/3vLHFv2
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a lactation consultant can be a true game-changer for both mother & baby (i speak from experience!). it's *mind-boggling* that in all of Pakistan there is only one certified practicing LC
by for & :
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Have to send a special shout out to @rikrani for commissioning this piece and being one of the best editors I’ve ever had the fortune of working with. Thank you so much for all your guidance and support!
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So very proud of this reported feature I’ve been working on since the summer; it’s finally out today on . It’s a topic near and dear to my heart since I became a mom last year: supporting mothers in Pakistan breastfeed their newborn babies.
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Pluto wants to get in on the trend too.
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Drop a picture of your pet that looks like an album cover
I always thought this photo of my husband (tall guy holding the water bottle) and me (in front with sunglasses) at a rave from back in our 20s (RIP) would make an awesome album cover. This Twitter trend is the closest it’ll ever get to fulfilling its potential.
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I seen family portraits as album covers. This mine twitter.com/afshandl/statu…
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Thank you, Haseeb. For anyone interested, here’s the story I allude to at the end of my essay about helping my mom through psychedelics as well. I wrote this a few years back since it was easier for me to help her with her trauma first, and then myself.
vice.com/en/article/ypn
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Sorry took a while to read it. But this was a very powerful piece, Hina - about dealing with trauma through psychedelics twitter.com/HinaTweetsNow/…
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When my dad was diagnosed with diabetes, he was aghast by the food options given to him by his Canadian dietitian "steamed broccoli" 🙅🏽♂️😂. So we had to go on our own unsupported adventure of making Indian food healthy - much like Hina's story here
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Wrote an essay for CBC about how my mom’s almost-heart-attack at 54 scared the shit out of me and made me rethink my relationship with desi food. Don’t worry, I still eat all the good stuff, but do it a little differently now.
cbc.ca/news/canada/fi
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Wrote an essay for CBC about how my mom’s almost-heart-attack at 54 scared the shit out of me and made me rethink my relationship with desi food. Don’t worry, I still eat all the good stuff, but do it a little differently now.
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