After the 2022 floods in Pakistan hit, it became evident that sanitary napkins were not considered a need but a luxury. Bushra Mahnoor and Anam Khalid recognized this gap. They started Mahwari ( Menstrual) Justice, a campaign that provides menstrual products to flood-affected women and starts a much-needed conversation about period awareness.

So in today's episode of Out of the Box, LET'S TALK ABOUT PERIODS.

In the second episode with Sarah Belal, the Executive Director of Justice Project Pakistan, She discussed in detail our Justice System in Pakistan, the Mental health of our prisoners, and the stories of the resilience and hope of the family members of the capital punishment prisoners.

Today we are joined by the Executive Director of Justice Project Pakistan, Sarah Belal to talk about Pakistan's criminal Justice System, prisoners' reforms, and the challenges she faces when defending the most vulnerable segment of society. Sarah also talks about hope, resilience, and embracing the chaos since that is the only way one can work towards positive change in Pakistan.

To read the book "Serving Time: Pakistan's Prisons through the ages" click here: http://jpp.jppprisonreforms.com/

In this podcast, we are joined by musician and music video director Zain Peerzada who you might know from Velo Sound Station and Coke Studio, and for directing some of your favorite music videos from Pakistan's up-and-coming indie musicians. You can check out Zain's work through his company, Flux Media, here: https://www.instagram.com/flu.xmedia/... As well as follow him on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/zainpeerzada/ We talk to Zain about his journey of music as well as what is the current music ecosystem of Pakistan and where it is headed.

In the second episode with Saad Ayub Yratta, we talked about weddings, marriages and role of feminism in society.

In this episode of Out Of The Box, we are in conversation with the lovely Saad Ayub Yratta. He is stealing many hearts with his cinematography and the interpretation of feminism through his lens. We are talking about weddings, marriages, love, healing, privilege and money in this episode.

In today's podcast episode, Alveena has invited her mother on the show and we are talking about the challenges and rewards of raising independent thinking women in Pakistan. We will also have a candid conversation about the complexities of a mother daughter relationship and the fights we all had to fight with our parents and how we can now mend our relationships with them.

In this special edition of our podcast we are unpacking female identity and friendship through the lens of patriarchy. We are joined by theatre practitioner, gender expert and the founder of Maati TV, Mohammad Waseem to reflect on what equality can or should look to us and how we can achieve it.

We are continuing our conversation with political activist and journalist Raza Gillani. We are talking about what are the problems facing Pakistani media today, what is their business model and what is the future for this industry.

Do Pakistani youth have a healthy relationship with the Politics of the country? We are joined by Raza Gillani, who is a journalist , researcher and a leading figure in the left wing student politics landscape of Pakistan. He is also someone willing to engage in critical dialogue in order in the hopes of creating a better future for the citizens of this country. Raza Gillani is working with @Lok Sujag . You can read his though-proving hard hitting journalism