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Sabeen Khan in SHE zaadiApr 44 min read

SHEzaadi Homework: April 4

Hey SHEzaadis! It’s been a while since we’ve lovingly assigned to you your homework in keeping up with brown…

Sabeen Khan in SHE zaadiMar 28 min read

Bleed like a woman

I am Pakistani. Pak like pure, like Quran-e Pak, the Holy Qur’an. Except once a month when I’m not pak, and so, not Pakistani. Once a month I am without ethnicity, I am a nowhere woman. Pak also happens to be the euphemism for menstruation (and I’ve just broken my Islam by placing Qur’an and…

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Sabeen Khan in SHE zaadiMar 12 min read

SHEzaadi Homework: March 1

What’s happening in the world of brown girls? Well, first off, a HUGE congratulations to home girl Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy for bringing home the halal bacon for her amazing documentary, A Girl in the River. You can watch the full feature on YouTube right here. This is her second win…

Sabeen Khan in SHE zaadiFeb 173 min read

SHEzaadi Fashion Week Roundup

Shezaadis are making their appearance this New York Fashion Week! We’ve got a pulse on dispatches from MG that mipster fashion bloggers are at the scene.

We’re seeing a holistically Shezaadi infiltration of NYFW, here with a nod at our modesty…

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Sabeen Khan in SHE zaadiFeb 34 min read

If there were… #TheMuslimBachelor

First of all, go Team Baby Mama! I forget her name but if Ben deserves anyone over and above his league, it’s she. His redeeming quality is that he recognizes her worth as a human woman, which is more than can be said for some of the others.

Sabeen Khan in SHE zaadiFeb 17 min read

Awoken

“All of us are woken. You’re the only one who hasn’t woken up, you and your brother.”

QueenzarrrMar 301 min read

“As women, we are taught to be tiny. To have small bodies, to never be imposing. The ideal of our gender are thin and childlike, hairless and dainty. We are defined by our bodies; defined by our control over them. We are taught to obsess over our physicality and to be repulsed by our desires and intelligences. We are taught to walk scared late at…