Sometimes you read pieces and they stay with you for a very long time until you tell whatever story you were supposed to. For me, it was a piece I was shown by a brilliant teacher and writer during my BA, it’s called Love & Other Catastrophes: A Mixtape by Amanda Holzer. It tells a…
Playlist: Life so far.
The latest playlist task was to make a list of seven songs that depict your life up to right now, I’ve started from childhood and pointed out songs that had a big impact on me growing up (and why I loved them so much). Hope you enjoy reading it! Link to playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/zahrahbibi/playlist/54PGzgtPIKJzLxorbnLNMR 01….
Playlist: Falling in love
I was tasked with the exciting opportunity to soundtrack falling in love. Specifically, at the very beginning, when you’re on the cusp of something filled with such beautiful potential. This part of a relationship summons up a mix of emotions. This task was trying, so my choices are very specific to me. I’m interested to…
Playlist: 6 Degrees of Separation
“Falling in love is the easiest thing you will ever do, which is why falling out of love hurts like hell.” – Dan, One Tree Hill Here are seven songs for those times when you have to fall out of love (here is a link to a spotify playlist with the songs in order). For…
Let’s go for a swim and make the world watch.
We’re women: everything we do is a politic statement. Catcalls, being called a Paki, being called a Terrorist while walking home in Year 5. Being told that women who wear a face veil are oppressed by the very teacher you respected most at school. Being made to feel like an outsider. Romanticising it all <3….
And you give yourself away.
“Through the storm we reach the shore, You give it all but I want more” Our problem was that we tried to fit into a world that wasn’t meant for us. We tried to wake up together and make breakfast. I’m toast and you’re croissants. I’m vodka and you’re champagne. You’re silk cut and I’m…
Well, I’ve been afraid of changing.
“You’re the one designed for me. A distant stranger that I will complete, I know you’re out there – it’s meant to be. So keep your head down, and make it to me.” * * * There is always that time in the middle of the night. You wake up, and for a few…
This is where I wanna be.
The only good thing that ever happened to this town was us. Shereen was a really talented artist. One day she fell in love with a Pharmacist and she got free paracetamol for life. Ginny and Billy both met while they were DJing, they fell in love really early on. But then Billy accidentally scratched…
Let me light up the sky.
The first piece of writing I ever wrote was about a circle. About going back to the root, about a cycle completing itself. There’s also a phrase I keep going back to “cuddles at sunrise under the glow of orangey blue skies, July, 2am.” Always, that same phrase just finds it’s way into everything I…
I can’t do this all on my own.
“How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others,…
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