Azra Tabassum's Blog, page 232

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how should a home make you feel?

Like there’s no place you’ll be more comfortable

The culture that I come from breeds a certain kind of passivity. It says that if you’re a woman you...

The culture that I come from breeds a certain kind of passivity. It says that if you’re a woman you bow to the wills of those around you. You say yes because you’ve been taught to bend over backwards to please other people. You say yes because you’ve been taught obedience. When your parents say ‘jump’, you jump. You don’t speak back. You don’t get too loud. My best friend is the perfect example of a passive, compliant woman who is engaged at 20 to a man she’s barely spoken five words to because her parents told her to and she listened because that’s what being a good daughter is. The fact that this kind of thing is happening right now, still, in 2014 to girls who have been brought up in western culture makes me furious. Now that’s not me saying western culture is the shining pinnacle because it’s really not. But there are some aspects of it, independence of thought being the biggest, that I support fully.

I’m fucking rejecting this culture. I’m rejecting it for myself and for any future children that I might have. I’m not going to enforce unfair rules on the people I love.

I’m not going to be complicit in the widespread silence of brown women.

"I’m so full of you that there are parts of me that can only respond to your touch. My hair, my..."

“I’m so full of you that there are parts of me that can only respond to your touch. My hair, my mouth, my throat: they’re all anxious for you. They’re all waiting. Anyone else feels like they don’t belong. But you, you’ve got me all wired up, nerves twisted into knots, hands fucking shaking before they’ve even touched. You feel like home even though you’re not. That’s the most terrifying part of it all. You’re not, but the rest of me is convinced that you are.”

- Azra.T “Homeostasis”

Hi. I've suffered from an eating disorder for the past four years and although I'm now in recovery, I get days like today where I want to tear away at my fat and feel weightless. Instead I've been coming here where your poetry and always calms me down and

I am so proud of you. You’ve always been the most wonderful vibrant soul. I’m glad you’re finally seeing it.

(Faceless anon who is not invited into your bed, and is absolutely devastated about that) omg if you're being serious then absolutely - meeting you would be a dream!! Are chocolate chip good?

I’m completely dead on serious. Come off anon and we’ll chat!!! (Cookies will get you anywhere though. Absolutely anywhere. I’m THAT easy ;))

Azra honey, i always think of you as the human form of the song "Emma" by Bon Iver, and whenever I listen to any song by Keaton Henson I think of you idk why.

Ssh shh shh come over here and let me kiss you 

"Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are..."

“Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving.”

- Warsan Shire

your blog title and description is perfection tbh.

Thank you! Like, I think I wrote it? But it feels super familiar so it could be something that my mind retained and just shifted a little, I dunno.