TRIGGER WARNING: Female Genital Mutilation

I spoke to Zahra, who bravely opened up and shared vivid details of the day she went through FGM as a child in Karachi, Pakistan.

Stay tuned for the full episode!

TRIGGER WARNING: This episodes deals with accounts of sexual abuse. Largely, an introduction to my life, journey and healing from sexual trauma, and how these experiences encouraged me to start my own podcast and tackle taboo topics.

TRIGGER WARNING: Child sexual abuse. A snippet from my soon-to-release monologue on how I overcame trauma from child sexual abuse and the body work it required.

In South Asia and various Muslim majority societies, newly married couples are often confronted with the pressures of ‘consummating’ their marriages. Women, especially, find themselves in a position where they are expected to have first-time sex with their husbands before they can even have dinner together. IT’S OKAY TO NOT WANT TO FALL IN THIS TRAP.