Burqah & Bikini

In this episode, I speak with Urooba Jamal, a Canadian journalist of Pakistani heritage and Muslim background. Growing up in a religious family, Urooba followed her parents’ path and began wearing the hijab as a teenager in Canada. But years later, she made the decision to remove it—a choice that came with personal and family challenges, particularly with her father. Taking off the hijab was not j...

In this episode, I sit down with Yusra Amjad, a Pakistani poet and outspoken woman, known for sharing her dating experiences and insights on life in Pakistani society. We discuss what it’s like to date as a Pakistani woman, the qualities of reliable men, navigating online dating, and the red and green flags to watch for. We also explore dating in highly patriarchal societies, including western cou...

Soul Bitches is a leading women's Facebook group in Pakistan. Rabeeya started it 8 years ago, built a powerhouse community of 33,000 Pakistani women, both within the country and abroad. This platform fostered vital discussions around sexual health, women's rights, bodies and other taboo topics, and empowered women in a highly patriarchal society. Unfortunately, the group was unexpectedly taken dow...

In this episode, award-winning advertising professional Huma Mobin shares her journey of navigating conversations about intimacy with her partner. She discusses how she built the foundation of an intimate relationship, pacing it in alignment with her body's comfort and boundaries. Huma also reflects on her experience with first-time sex on her wedding night, and how she overcame the challenges sur...

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.