Bordeline Personality Disorder
Disclaimer: I am merely an individual struggling with the disease, not a trained mental health professional, I am only able to speak on behalf of my experience.
Women Empowering Women
Category: Blog
TW: Domestic and Emotional Abuse
Although I wrote this piece on romantic relationships, abusive relationships can emerge out of virtually any kind of relationship- familial, platonic, and professional.
Violence Against Indigenous Women in Mexico and Canada: A Comparative Study
Mexico and Canada- two countries unified by their general history of settler-colonialism and violence towards Indigenous peoples- house an epidemic of violence towards Indigenous women that include “rape, forced disappearance, human trafficking, and murder” as frequent manifestations of violence (Marceau et al.). In both countries, these crimes often go on with impunity and without investigation…
Nisa Homes: transitional housing for victims of homelessness and domestic abuse
Women face insurmountable forms of domestic abuse, poverty, and shelter insecurity. We face struggles involving income, relationship strain, and marginalization. These stem from inequalities birthed form the very nature of our largely mysoginist and patriarchal societies – and Muslim women fit deeper into this intersection. Being a Muslim woman in a western society comes with…
Sexism in Academia: Finals Edition
It’s finally that time of year, the snow is melting and the days are longer, the smell of finals season lingers in the air as we slowly make our way through the final stretch of the winter semester. For some, this time of year brings a sense of hope and finals-induced anxiety as the school…