Farzeen Ather

Staff Writer

Farzeen started writing for The Ubyssey in 2021. She loves reading the news just as much as she enjoys writing it. As an English literature major, you can usually find her with her head in a book somewhere on campus.

I grew up in Calgary, in a fairly fundamentalist religious household. I struggled to find balance between the ‘Western’ ideals of my friends and school, and the traditional teachings around purity and gender relations that were part and parcel of my family’s cultural belief system.

Most women of colour will tell you how every time they start getting that gross feeling in their stomach, one of the first things that pops into our minds is the question: “But what if they don’t like (insert ethnicity)?”

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