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Aysha Tabassum

Aysha Tabassum is a brown Muslim woman from Scarborough, Ont. She is a fourth-year commerce student at Queen’s University, where she works as editor in chief of The Queen’s Journal.

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    'Good desi girls don't date' — so where does that leave me?

    South Asian women — especially Muslim women like myself — experience love in constant dichotomies, writes Aysha Tabassum. When we’re abstinent, we’re being oppressed and making our parents proud. When we’re promiscuous, or even when we’re just falling in love, we’re both empowered and enslaved by internalized orientalism.
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