Featured Writings
Some Poems Are Prayers
Mahnoor Rehan
'Some Poems Are Prayers' by Mahnoor Rehan is a quiet exploration of faith, longing, and self-expression, where private moments of struggle and hope transform into gentle, personal poetry.
Permit Me Not
Abdullah Ali Khan
A contemplative meditation on longing, Permit Me Not by Abdullah Ali Khan traces the tension between desire and restraint, where love becomes both a solace and a burden.
Good girls don’t stare at their own thighs.
Hamda Abbas
An emotional, lyrical dive into longing and identity, tracing the quiet struggle between internalized guilt and the freedom to feel without fear.
Becoming
Fatimah Binte Rahat
A reflection on feeling lost in your twenties—treading water while others move forward, held together by habit, yet still showing up. Maybe that's enough for now.
Painting on A Wall
Khansa Noor
Explores the quiet erasure of selfhood, and questions how much of ourselves we lose when we become what others expect, blending into the background until we're merely ornament.
The Weight of Opposites
Hadiqa Riaz
A reflection on duality and balance. This piece explores how we only truly understand one feeling through the existence of its opposite, and why contrast gives meaning to life.
This Autumn
Aliha Ahsan
A lament for a heart that has withered too soon. This piece captures the ache of emotional exhaustion and the feeling of losing softness and warmth before your time.
The Strange Familiar
Maha Afzal
A meditation on what happens when you return to the places that once felt like home. About nostalgia, displacement, and the quiet grief of outgrowing where you began.
Log Kya Kahenge?
Rubab Zahra
A satirical survival manual on navigating impossible expectations. This piece dissects the suffocating contradictions women face at every turn, where every choice is wrong and approval is always out of reach.
The Women Who Raised the Monsters, Then Wept When Bitten
Anamta Choudhary
Explores the paradox of how women perpetuate the very systems that harm them. A raw examination of double standards, entitlement, and the quiet ways patriarchy is passed down through kitchens and expectations.
Recipe for Izzat
Beenish Farhan
A haunting exploration of violence masked as honor. This piece examines how brutality is justified, celebrated, and passed down as duty while its victims are erased.
Paparazzi
Marium Ahsan
A meditation on visibility, surveillance, and reclaiming public space. Explores what it means to exist under constant scrutiny and the quiet defiance required to move through the world.
The Scale Must Be Lying
Alishba Asif
Confronts the internalized shame and relentless pressure around body image. This piece explores self-worth, societal expectations, and the painful journey toward self-acceptance and compassion.
My body reminds me I'm alive by trying to kill me
Maheen Sohail Malik
A powerful reclamation of bodily autonomy and the shame imposed on menstruation. This piece transforms pain and silence into defiance, rejecting the stigma that surrounds a natural process.