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Foregrounding marginalised voices
Rubab Zaidi is a freelance writer who is currently working in Sales and Training. She loves shopping, fashion (especially the modest kind), and socialising over cups of tea. She is an eternal optimist and believes that good communication skills can make life so much easier. She is a single mum to a beautiful boy who is her biggest fan. Life has taught Rubab to prioritise her own health and well-being without paying heed to the opinions of others. She tweets @Ruby2805.
In January 2014 we asked 10 writers on their opinions for terms and classifications used to describe traditionally marginalised people in the West. These were collected in our article series ‘Ethnic Minority? No, Global Majority’, Parts One and Two. Since then the debate has raged on both sides of the pond. The term ‘political blackness’… Read More
by Rubab Zaidi It seems as though the last twelve months have brought one calamity after another – some caused by nature and some entirely manmade. It hasn’t all been gloom and doom though, because out of all the carnage and heartbreak there have emerged many acts of unity, heroism and genuine kindness. Like this… Read More
by Rubab Zaidi Like it or not, World Hijab Day is now officially a part of the calendar. And as with everything even remotely linked to hijab and/or Muslims it comes with its own set of controversies, debates, arguments, disagreements and criticisms. This article, for example, is full of all of the above. You probably… Read More
by Rubab Zaidi All year round, the likes of ISIS and Boko Haram have been hard at work trying to give Muslims a bad name. We’re a homogenous mass see… While concern is high that young Muslims and/or like in this hoax of a story young white teenagers are being radicalized and running away to… Read More
by Rubab Zaidi She woke up next to him every morning with a terrible feeling in the pit of her stomach, dreading what the day would bring. He would wake up every morning making every effort to not even look in her direction. She’d watch him with his back towards her and wonder what she… Read More
by Rubab Zaidi Recently hashtags related to domestic violence were trending on Twitter, #WhyILeft and #WhyIStayed, asking women to come forward with their stories about why they chose to leave or stay in an abusive relationship. I thought it was incredibly brave of people to tell their stories like that – something I have not… Read More
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