These women aren't just pushing the dance form's boundaries but also challenging ideas about what women can and can't do in public spaces.
Tag: safe spaces
Are You Looking At My Chest?
Let the world be suddenly afraid of our chests, for our breasts are finally staring back.
What Is the Big Deal If a Woman Loves Freely?
I am constantly reminded to calculate before I speak, to be selective in friendship, to love secretly, to despise pleasure, I am cautioned against going wayward in my pursuit …
Home Is the Name We Made up for Where the Heart Is Stuck
‘Come home’ Ma says. ‘Enough of this estrangement.’
The Day We Walked to Saffy’s
I know my most precious friends by the way their laughs curl upwards from the soil of their bellies.
Have You Left the Building?
This poem was written in 2014, in the aftermath of the Peshawar school attack that killed 134 children.