A dick appointment to feel attractive? Sounds familiar — Shagging to feel better about yourself is something you’re probably going to do at least once in your life. It’s driven by the need to feel wanted, desired and self-assured, because in a world where women are constantly pitted against one another, getting attention from a man feels like an…

TRIGGER WARNING: mentions of kidnapping / murder / abuse. talk about depression (?), disassociation do you ever feel like you’re floating through life, like nothing is real and everything that is happening is simply a hazy dream? …

[this is a snippet of my article for Hello Giggles which you can find here.] At the very start of 2020, I met the love of my life. From the beginning, I knew if the relationship blossomed into something more serious, the journey would be fraught with hardship, guilt, and…

so guess what? For the next few days, THE ART OF FAKING IT will be free to get as an ebook on Amazon Kindle!!! Exciting or what? It deals with everything from mental health, romance + heartbreak, a great and funny love interest, lots of delicious food, sarcastic friends and…

hey everyone, how’s your Saturday going so far? i’ve got a couple deadlines in a few days and instead of doing that, i’m rewatching Modern Family. (as if i didn’t finish it like three days ago lmao). I just wanted to make this post to let you all know about…

Haaaaaaaaii everyone (✿◠‿◠) I hope you’re all doing great and enjoying this bank holiday weekend — I know it’s been a very long while since the last time I wrote on here (yikes) and quite a few things have happened since then. Including quite a long reading + writing slump. …

Hey everyone! I hope you’re all doing well. It’s been a while since my last post and quite a bit has happened since. I finished my second year of uni with a high 2:1 (alhamdulillah x100), I spent over a hundred pounds buying books for my third year — and…

I won’t minimise my identity or ethnicity to make anyone feel comfortable — For years, whilst learning and unlearning so many truths and the history behind not just my culture and my people, about the impact Britain left behind on Bangladesh, once part of India with Pakistan, I, in all complete honesty, wasn’t a fan of white people as a whole. Individual white…

Eurocentric beauty standards are so exhausting to live up to — “What does it say about our society when it tells us that darker skin is an instant cause for concern and discomfort?” After reading ‘As a Desi woman, I was taught that my hyperpigmented armpits were unnatural’, i realised that hyperpigmentation is something i want to talk about. As a…