Asiya Islam

Asiya Islam is the Gender Editor of Khurpi. She takes pride in being a feminist and is angry with most things most of the time. She moved from Aligarh, India to London in 2009 for Master's in Gender, Media and Culture at the London School of Economics. After finishing her Master's in 2010, Asiya joined the equality and diversity team at LSE, where she continues to work. Asiya has written for The Guardian, the New Statesman and the Sunday Guardian.

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Why the Maulana Azad Library issue is still the elephant in the room for AMU

The edited version of this article was earlier published in Scroll.in Bleary eyed in the library At 8 am on Sunday morning, when most students were probably catching ...
On December 10, 2014 / By Asiya Islam
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Do you cry #LikeAGirl? Let’s change what that means

I can’t remember when I started being aware of the need to always keep my legs together but that self-consciousness and hesitation is still visible whenever I have ...
On July 2, 2014 / By Asiya Islam
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Modi calls for protection of ma and behen – what about the rest of us?

The Prime Minister of India has spoken! Modi’s diktat on rape came two weeks after two teenage girls were raped and lynched in a village in Uttar Pradesh. ...
On June 27, 2014 / By Asiya Islam
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Why has a Bollywood style sing-a-long video landed Celina Jaitley in trouble?

Last time I checked, there was nothing risky about dancing around trees wearing blingy clothes – after all, that’s so Bollywood, isn’t it? Yet, Celina Jaitley has received ...
On May 28, 2014 / By Asiya Islam
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Learn how you can sell without being sexist in 30 seconds

Sex sells. And so does sexual objectification of women. Which is why the advertising industry, in particular, is full of sexism and sexist stereotypes. Cars are sold by ...
On May 20, 2014 / By Asiya Islam
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OECD says Indian men do the least housework in the world. Here’s what the Indian woman is thinking

I didn’t need the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to tell me that Indian men do only 19 minutes of housework per day. Despite claims that ...
On March 17, 2014 / By Asiya Islam
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Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki? I don’t think so

Last week, Sharmila Tagore, while endorsing the new Doordarshan serial Mai kuch bhi kar sakti hun directed by Feroz Abbas Khan, said that there is a complete absence ...
On March 5, 2014 / By Asiya Islam