Parveen Ali

I am a practising mature Muslim woman who has struggled to meet someone for marriage purposes as a woman; it’s challenging to find halal spaces to meet someone offline. I’ve been looking to meet someone for Marriage for many years now. I’m a celibate woman, which means I do not engage in sexual activity. In […]

Islamophobia is a posh persons prejudice, according to a report by Birmingham university. “A survey led by the University of Birmingham says people from middle and upper-class occupational groups are more likely to hold prejudiced views of Islam than people from the working-class occupational group.” The study highlighted that the British public is three times […]

Project PINAC is a short documentary on auditors in the UK filming secure buildings, including police stations. In the UK, there is a new trend of members of the public and citizen-journalists who turn up at police stations to film the interaction with the staff and the police. According to some, the auditors/ citizen journalists […]

Wednesday 22nd June 2022, I haven’t slept most of the night yet again. I spent last night watching movies on my laptop to distract myself from my feelings. I scrolled through my Twitter feed; I saw article after article on violence against women. One article read, “89-year-old woman stabbed to death in South London” I […]

Depart is an ongoing personal project…. 24 hours in Blackpool has been amazing 🙂 I was a little nervous wearing my niqab in Blackpool. However, the people here have been welcoming. Everyone has treated me with respect. Cafe staff, taxi drivers and local shop workers have all been kind. I have been stared at a […]

Chapter 1 – The photographic media representation of Sarah Everard’s Vigil and how this relates to violence against women  Subheading- How many women have been killed by men since Sarah’s death? Chapter 2- How the male gaze theory accounts for victim-blaming in the media reporting of rape and abuse  Chapter 3- Gender inequality in the […]