OCT 28, 2025
NOV 04, 2025
In Lahore, the toxic air arrives before the news. You can taste it before the weather app updates, whether it’s the faint sting in your throat, a heaviness in your chest, or the slow realization that the season of suffocation has begun again.
Mother, Mama, Mom — if you’re reading this... This is for you, and for all the mothers, women in their 40s or early 50s, struggling to manage everything happening inside their bodies.
More than half of all women of reproductive age in Pakistan live with a condition that many of them don’t even know they have. It disrupts menstrual cycles, causes weight gain, acne, unwanted facial hair, infertility, and in many cases, depression.
SEPT 09, 2025
AUG 26, 2025
Picture a house that floods while decisions about who leaves first are still made by others. Picture a home with no separate bathroom, no lock, no private space. Picture a woman asked to carry a child and the family’s few belongings through waist-deep water while men search for a boat.
OCT 03, 2022
On September 20th in Kerman, Iran, women protested following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was detained by the morality police for allegedly violating hijab rules.
OCT 17, 2025
On September 30th, 2022, a suicide bombing targeted the Kaaj Educational Center in the Daste Barchi district of western Kabul, killing 53 students and wounding dozens more.
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This platform is committed to research-driven, thoughtful writing that illuminates body politics, culture, and society. Each essay and conversation blends careful analysis with reflective storytelling, grounded in evidence, cultural observation, and lived experience. The platform is independent, and all work is authored and curated by Sarosh Ibrahim and does not represent any institution or external viewpoint.
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A platform exploring body politics, culture, and identity in Pakistan and beyond.