Published Works
Shameless A Review of Bilal Baig’s “Sort Of” September 2022
She Does The City Slowness Is Healing September 2022
CBC News Let down by Pride parade organizers, queer communities took charge August 2022
South Asian Today Being childfree isn’t selfish - it’s my moral responsibility July 2022
Never Apart Losing Touch March 2021
Wear Your Voice When ‘Moti’ and Unmarriageable is all that you are in South Asian Culture October 2020
Naya Daur Sexual Violence and the Hyper-masculine Nation State September 2020
ProperGaanda Why ‘Churails’ is the story of every Pakistani ever August 2020
ProperGaanda Sexual ‘Liberation’ and Class Struggle in Contemporary Pakistan June 2020
Shameless An Interview with Toronto-based Artist Rajni Perera Issue 41, Spring 2020
Zero Point A monthly newsletter series I started in 2020, you can subscribe here.
Scroll.in Four novels set in Pakistan for those torn between nations, languages and identities July 2019
DAWN A Search for Identity: Pakistani literature as a lifeline July 2019
re-published on The Wire
Medium Eurocentrism Amongst Pakistan’s Elite July 2019
Daily Times The Bulge Under The Rug: The Repression & Mutation of Shame May 2019
Medium (Mental Health), What Abandonment Taught Me About My Anxiety May 2019
DAWN On embracing the hyphen and hybridity of language April 2019
Burnt Roti Magazine Will I Feel Like An Immigrant Forever? November 2018
Bustle What It Took For Me To Finally Start Talking About My Breasts June 2018
Medium What Privilege Feels like in a Conflict Zone March 2018
The Friday Times Love in the time of Mufti Naeem June 2016
The Tempest What it’s like to be gay and Muslim in a post-Orlando world June 2016
VICE What I Learned Having Sex as a Young Woman in Pakistan
(translated into German, French, Dutch and Greek) April 2016
The Tempest When will we finally take the honour out of killing? April 2016
The Tempest Colourism ruined my life growing up in Pakistan April 2016