Empowering pre-teen and teenage girls to emerge as confident practicing Muslimahs
Everyone wants to know what I did with all the extra time this year. What online course did I complete? What new skill did I learn? Did I master the art of choux pastry? Did I finally clear those cupboards that I had been meaning to clean? What about self-care?…
Have you ever been hurt so badly that it hurts every time you blink? Each time you breathe, pain pierces every part of your body? Your feeble cries are just desperate attempts to beg someone to notice your pain? You are in shock but keep moving a little to remind…
Dear Diary, I feel a low I can’t describe. The world around me is changing, I slept in one world and woke up in another. My heart, once used to a steady rhythm, trips and beats, then sinks into a pit I can’t describe. The days and nights run into…
There’s something reassuring about the koel crooning koo-oo Her primitive cry heralds spring, reawakens old, welcomes the new Just when all around is despondency, gloom of the virus flu There she sings, resplendent with hope! Defying the mood blue This pause, to deliberate your wanton excess was long overdue…