by Samran Rathore | Jun 4, 2021 | Opinions, Views & Contexts
This week I binged on all 6 episodes of ‘We are Lady Parts’ with my wife, if you haven’t checked it out and intend to do so, *Spoiler Alert* maaaaybe come back to this post when you’ve done so! But if you’re not so precious, let’s go….As a British Muslim who’s often...
by Samran Rathore | May 21, 2021 | Opinions, Views & Contexts
Palestine! A word that conjures up all kind of emotions for many of us and a word we’ve been hearing incessantly on the news in the last few weeks, the triggering images and footage of war, death and destruction. Palestine, a word that many of us heard ring out in the...
by Samran Rathore | May 7, 2021 | Opinions, Views & Contexts
As Mental Health Awareness Week approaches here in the UK (10th-16th May), I wanted to take the time to share something I wrote a while back looking back at my own personal struggle. Speaking from the perspective of a young, 3rd generation British Asian kid, I was...
by Samran Rathore | Apr 27, 2021 | Opinions, Views & Contexts
April has been a mad one! We somewhat came out of lockdown here in the UK and as we tried to acclimatise to our new freedom, 20th April made us question what freedom truly means? I’m talking, of course, about the fatal police shooting of 16-year-old black teenager,...
by Samran Rathore | Feb 22, 2021 | Opinions, Views & Contexts
In the Summer of 2018 I attended a theatre piece called ‘What If I Told You’ written and performed by a fellow artist Pauline Mayers, a trained dancer, writer and performer, talking about the anatomy of the black female body, pain and the lack of empathy or outright...
