ASIAN WOMAN FESTIVAL

Over the past week or so the world has been reacting to the senseles murder of George Floyd and support for the Black Lives Matter movement has rightfully ta...

‘Beta (child), you have been married for one year now and still no baby - you should hurry up or people will start to talk!’ As British asian women we’ve all...

The number of times I have thought about writing this post and deleted it. I then asked myself, why do I want to share this as I am not just sharing my journ...

It’s a Saturday night, my birthday. My friends and I are out for drinks, and I’m sat here nodding my head and fake laughing but, in all honesty, I could not ...

Over the past nine months or so, I have been through various trials and tribulations both personally and through my family. As well as managing my own newly ...

In the moment that my husband Jeremy took his last breath, my identity changed from being his wife to being his widow... I’m Shalini Bhalla-Lucas and in July...

This cancerous volcano within this skin sac was once a refuge, a sanctuary, but now it was restructuring my body. Cringing at the chemical odours of Carbopla...

Hair. Hair. Hair. Something that will forever grow no matter how much we get rid of it. God has made us humans this way. We grow hair for the purposes of hea...

In many ways there are several things that are “stereotypically Indian” about me and my life. Are my parents are doctors? Check. Multiple statues of Ganpati ...

One big emotion that’s been flowing around the last few weeks is the Big A, Anxiety. During times of high stress, our bodies experience a physiological strai...

Nothing prepares you for how much change is brought by becoming a parent. Once you have a child, you put someone else’s physical and emotional needs first. H...

I'm a second-generation British Asian woman. That's one identity. I am a South Asian woman who identifies as Bisexual. That’s another. I consider myself to b...

We're all familiar with the queens of pop through the ages. Whether you're more Britney or Gaga, one thing has remained the same for many years- a severe lac...

You know me as the blogger, vlogger, model, presenter… But I bet you didn’t really know that I’m also a carer too?

TW: Eating disorders, addiction. I recently came out or better way to put it is I got caught and I guess I was tired of hiding. Tired of doing this every day...

I booked a photoshoot for myself months ago. Knowing it was approaching I was well aware I had started the obligatory weight loss countdown I’m sure many of ...

Hello everyone, I’m Ciona. I’m thirty, and I am estranged from all of my blood relatives. Yes, you did read that right, all of my blood relatives. It was I w...

Growing up as an Asian girl in the UK, it was unlikely that I’d see myself represented in books, on TV, in magazines or films.

What is identity? If you google the word identity, it says “The definition of identity is who you are, the way you think about yourself.

In this wonderful age where BAME women are speaking out about colourism and the oppressive repercussion of beauty standards