Aisha Sarwari writes of her husband’s life, and her own, while the book came into being. Aisha Sarwari Published August 25, 2020 If you want to learn about how to be mentally strong enough to write, edit and publish a book, despite all odds, ask the guy...
'Heart Tantrums' is a ferocious, piercing, and powerful narration of a Pakistani woman’s struggle with misogyny, abuse, identity, and patriarchy. ‘Heart Tantrums’ is a ferocious, piercing, and powerful narration of a Pakistani woman’s struggle with misogyny, abuse, identity, and patriarchy. Published by Penguin Random House India,...
Author Aisha Sarwari’s new memoir, Heart Tantrums: A Feminist’s Memoir on Mysogyny and Marriage, is likely to become an important work in world feminist literature. The author, feminist and women’s rights activist is a very powerful voice with an endearing sense of vulnerability. She answers some deeply...
These seasonal overviews of forthcoming books from university presses usually focus on public and topical concerns: technology, the election cycle, pandemic impacts and so on. But several titles appearing in the spring catalogs stand out as narratives of personal difficulty. The label “memoir” is probably more...
Heart Tantrums and Brain Tumours: A Tale of Misogyny, Marriage and Muslim FeminismBy Aisha SarwariC. Hurst & Co LtdISBN: 9781787388932320pp. The memoir is a particularly powerful storytelling tool, especially when the pen is wielded by those whose stories are not widely told or read or known,...
I was invited to speak at an event in a 5-star hotel on the inclusivity of women in public space. My co-panelist was a disability rights activist, a young woman in an electric wheelchair. When she arrived to speak she had to be lifted by...
I thought I had seen it all in my decade-long work on gender equity in Pakistan. Then I was asked to be the lead communications consultant in the USAID Pathways to Success program for the KP province. It is only now, that I really feel...
Last month Pakistan held its largest women’s march – a collective feminist movement to bring women’s status closer to a human being and less close to a pet. Since then, there have been even more strides in the civil society – our films contain more...
Schools are not places to develop learning outcomes in Pakistan. Rather, they are political tools. There is graft during teacher induction, neglect during knowledge transfer; pedagogical understanding is non-existent and a whole lot of misspending happens by the provincial governments. Public school children suffer the...
A lot of men in conservative societies often say feminist social media movements are not suitable. They say societies like Pakistan cannot live out these online movements because they propel foreign notions of gender equality. That these #metoo-esque efforts are for women who are unhinged,...
