Author: Amna Mannan

Need for Validation

A poem about an everyday struggle with self esteem issues and the intrusive thoughts that come with them.

'How much of my suffering is needed for you to acknowledge or call out oppression?'

'I want to be a revolutionary. I want to bring change.'

'They reckon that the cloth on my head doesn't let me think, choose, make decisions.'

'Everything about her showed how deep her mind and soul were. Yet she was ridiculed for her appearance.'

A short essay on toxic positivity.

A poem on the misplaced perception that women are the 'weaker sex'.