![]() Every character that was created truly depicted a real woman from the anxious new bride to the confused young woman exploring dating and meeting the right man. It cleverly used stereotypes of the aunty who desperately searches matrimonial ads in The Urdu Times for her 32/34 year old daughter as a catalyst to highlight underlying issues in the community. The one-woman show was simply a breath of fresh air. She played several characters of whom she wove in and out of beautifully to tell stories of what it is like to be a female immigrant or child of immigrants. ![]() The purpose of this play was to highlight that you can be both cultures or more in immigrant life. Are we just one or the other, or can we be both?Īizzah is a Pakistani American. The word ‘dirty’ made me think sex you know that “shhh we don’t talk about that” taboo attitude and of course lingerie, made me think things could be getting a little saucy! Aizzah was on the panel of a radio show I work on to talk about female empowerment and everything she was saying made me think about my own position as a British and Asian female. Having met Aizzah earlier in the day I knew it would cover the obvious themes of being Pakistani. Last night I went to see a play performed by Aizzah Fatimah and Erica Gould at The Old Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Provocative title huh? Yeah, I think that’s the point. I sit at table by the window tapping away at my laptop not really knowing where to begin…ĭirty Pakistani Lingerie. I said to myself last night that this journey was to reflect on my thoughts of what I saw last night. So here I am, a modern, working class twenty-something female on Thursday morning having rushed through the traffic of Birmingham city centre to board my train to London. A favourite saying of mine has become “I am not defined by my culture, but rather inspired by it”. Whilst I am of course, British Asian and female, I tend not to let that that be the only way I see things. I don’t think I can recall the last time I wrote anything with a feminist voice especially an Asian feminist voice since, well, my dissertation on ‘the British Asian Representation of the Female’.
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