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I made this for you!

Faima Bakar

Short-ish essays about love, life, culture, work, and social justice. From me, a journalist and Bengali-Muslim woman, plus other literary babes and faves.

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Being in love with someone who no longer wants to be alive

“What would you do if you found out I killed myself?” he asks me over the phone, knowing we’ve both imagined that scenario before.
”Sadly, it’s something I think about more than I’d like to,” I admit, wondering who would be the one to bre...

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Rejecting a £90,000-salary job after three years of unemployment

In the second leg of a 21-hour travel journey, I’d landed in L.A and connected to the patchy customs Wi-fi. In the flurry of notifications landing in my phone after 11 hours of airplane mode, one email stopped me in my tracks. The subject l...

6 months ago
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How to decentre marriage and why we must

Two weeks ago, I made a big mistake, a fault so grave that it unravelled my sense of self and destroyed my idea of who I am and where I’m going. My imaan (faith) suffered as a result and, in the classic devilish whispers, I found myself fee...

9 months ago
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The price of my neck

I have a hot neck. I don’t mean that in a sexy way, but in terms of temperature. In fact, this is one of the main reasons I avoided wearing a hijab for so long. But after waiting years to be ready to put on the hijab, four months ago, I, as...

a year ago
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The brief but educational time I earned £60,000 to edit at a national newspaper

I got the call just after I arrived at JFK, New York, following a red-eye flight from Arizona, where I’d explored 600 miles of Route 66 for a freelance travel commission. For the previous two and a half years, I’d managed to make a liveliho...

a year ago
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  • Faima Bakar

    I write about love, loss, culture, faith & other things you probably talk to friends about. I'm also an award-winning Muslim-Bangladeshi journalist.

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