I was focussed fully on the ice-cream pudding in my bowl, most distractions obliterated, as I contributed to my cousins’ conversation now and then at ... Read More +
My mum is one of my closest friends, my biggest fan and a head full of my secrets. She has prided herself on being an open, young, westernised mum who would rat... Read More +
I’ve written before about my experiences of being racially bullied and ostracised at high school. In a bid to get away from that, I enrolled myself into a colle... Read More +
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My ex-boyfriend was perfect. He was handsome, charming, funny, and, on several occasions, sang to me in front of the whole school. We were determined to get mar... Read More +
"Would you mind if I borrowed your phone, pretended you were my friend Agnes and texted my mum?" asked me, aged 23, on a first date with a white boy from dating... Read More +
Once, in the distant past, I went on a date with a man.
After a few days of back-and-forth texting, we arranged to meet at a bar near my house; but, alas, h... Read More +
This week, a short story took the internet by storm. Cat Person, by Kristen Roupenian, is about Margot, a rather unlikeable 20-year-old woman, who meets the equ... Read More +
Until two years ago my dating life was, to put it eloquently, dusty. As the eldest daughter to protective, Muslim, second-generation Indians, it was crystal cle... Read More +
Do you know that feeling when you get parred off? A breakdown of a casual relationship is a sudden shock to the system. You were just starting your next Netflix... Read More +
If ‘The Hunger Games’ has Jennifer Lawrence, then ‘The Woke Games’ has Jesse Williams. Each oppressed black person battles to affirm their social consciousness ... Read More +
In a wine bar with lighting reminiscent of Hollister, where crates had inexplicably become a substitute for furniture – it hit me, a revelation:
“I think may... Read More +
When I was 11 my neighbour told my first crush that I liked him. Later he relayed his reaction back to a group of us on the driveway, bare feet padding up and d... Read More +
All of my interracial dating experiences have come packed together with many kinds of racial emotional labour for me to deal with. Whether it be microaggression... Read More +
I think we both just thought it would last forever. We never actually said 'forever' but the days turned into months and the months into years and it just went ... Read More +
There is a definite internal conflict that comes with being brought up as British Muslim. This is especially true when it comes to sex before marriage.
I gr... Read More +
After nine months of no contact, I received an unsolicited, unnecessary and unwelcome Facebook message from my ex-boyfriend, who is problematically Eat, Pray, L... Read More +
I was 12 years old. I was 12 years old, and I had gotten my period the year before so I guess I was a Woman now. I was a Woman but I still felt like that same a... Read More +
I remember switching on the television and sitting back with him on his bed. We didn't intend on watching it. It was just background noise. Before Netflix and C... Read More +
*Disclaimer: these apply to all genders, the name just bangs
This year I found myself unexpectedly single after a long term relationship which started and en... Read More +
When was the last time someone asked you out on a date?
I don’t mean the last time someone asked you out for dinner, or to see a show, or to “netflix and chil... Read More +
Finding a relationship in 2016 rests on the relationship you have with your phone. With apps like Tinder, Snapchat, and Whatsapp, messaging services like iMessa... Read More +
Clad in a navy blazer, a red-faced undergraduate eagerly stood up and downed his sloshing glass of wine as he heard the chant: "I sconce anyone who has ever sha... Read More +
“I’ve never had sex with a black girl before – is it pink inside?” Definitely not the most romantic words anyone can say to a young woman. Whether he found out ... Read More +
Takara Allen, 22, shared a post on Facebook this week which revealed a message she received from her Tinder date recommending that she bleached her skin.
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From the title of this article, you've presumably already gathered this piece will tackle the fetishising of Asian women, however, you might not realise just ho... Read More +
