Inspire

My Big Fat Feminist Pregnancy

As a girl playing with my dolls, I always pretended they were other people’s kids. As an adult I lumped getting pregnant with getting married, and slapped a “no thank you” on both.

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Divulging divorce

For a community that celebrates tying the knot with all the bells, whistles, and horses they can muster, it’s no wonder “divorce” is such an unmentionable.

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Dancing to Mamma’s beats

A chorus of soft voices reciting Dha Dhin Dhin Dha shook my focus. I turned to find my two little munchkins reciting teentaal while playing with their trucks!

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Meet the Author: Zaiba Malik

I was named after a famous Pakistani actress, a screen goddess: Zeba. When people ask me how to pronounce it, I tell them, “Well, it rhymes with ‘labour’ or ‘neighbour’.”

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We are a Muslim, please

Memories of her mother…asking the dear Queen if she would hire her to work at Buckingham Palace: “You are like my family. You are very decent people. I want to help you. I will do what you need, cook, clean, iron.”

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Let’s fight it out

The children are the chess pieces on this board game called divorce, while the parents are the key players making their moves as they see fit.

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The Immigrant Dream

How–with no vehicle, no viable jobs lined up, and barely any contacts–did they successfully immigrate to a country as literally and figuratively cold as Canada, with three kids younger than 15?

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