symrun | سمرن

sharam bhi nai aati aur dance bhi nai aata | 28 | she/her | muslim | radically anti-war | decolonial intersectional feminist🍉🇵🇰

[symrun | سمرن @madrpidrazaad]

after a bit of a bender I wanna say we graduated

[Aimun @bluemagicboxes]

Don't want kids on planes, don't want kids in weddings, don't want kids to speak their mind, don't want kids to roam their streets unafraid, don't want kids to be anything other than remote controlled toys for their parents but want to talk about your own childhood trauma.

[Nida Kirmani @NidaKirmani]

While the current regime tries to bask in its glory as 'global peacemaker', the unjust trial & verdict against Dr. Mahrang & Sibghatullah Shahjee has exposed its true face. Oppressed people in Pakistan could already see through the farce; now the rest of the world can see it too.

[Nida Kirmani @NidaKirmani]

Life imprisonment for peaceful protest. This is pure insanity. Please raise your voices, & protest this as loudly as possible. #releaseBYCleaders

[Al Mayadeen English @MayadeenEnglish]

The scale and nature of Israeli killings were central to the #UN's conclusion that Israeli authorities demonstrated genocidal intent aimed at annihilating Palestinian children in #Gaza. https://t.co/aJ8hECT2TM

[Aimun @bluemagicboxes]

I am sorry we need to start culling men in this country

[Nida Kirmani @NidaKirmani]

My feed is filled with support & love for Mahrang. Clearly, no one believes the state's fabricated narrative, not even those on their payroll. Those claiming victory should remember that a regime built on a foundation of lies stands on shaky ground. It can crumble in a heartbeat.

[m @chmpgnsoshalist]

mobeen ansari photographed the color blue across pakistan and it’s so calming to look at.

[𓅓 @desilarper]

babe what if we were 2 Pakistani snow leopards posing for a drone shot

[Chisom Ogamba, PhD @CP_Ogamba]

Especially women. We can wake up one day & all our rights will be taken away on a whim but never for men. The Afghan women went to bed one night & woke up the next day as slaves in their own homes & it haunts me everyday.

[✧ @cessonmute]

Unpopular opinion:

I rarely meet men in real life who are as remarkable as the ones written in movies, but I constantly meet women who are far more impressive than the women movies give us.

[Saman Tariq @stariq88]

Every time I travel out of country, I realize how much lighter I feel when I’m away from the societal expectations of how I’m supposed to exist as a woman. I’m still the same person, just less tense. And it’s not just because I’m on vacation. I’m sure other women can relate.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.

[femiiiiii. @femiiiszn]

libraries literally aren't just places to obtain books for free. they're some of the few public spaces left in our society where you're allowed to exist without the expectation of spending money.

[symrun | سمرن @madrpidrazaad]

gender apartheid

[سارہ @SendCheesecake]

There is a femicide crisis in Pakistan whether people are comfortable calling it that or not. When women are killed for choosing their partners, seeking freedom, rejecting control, or for so-called “honour”, the pattern is impossible to ignore. Denial doesn’t change reality.

[girlsay. @_GirlSay]

it's like asking men to imagine us as people wtf

[symrun | سمرن @madrpidrazaad]

travelling with friends and don’t think to keep my headphones or a book

[𝓟𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓼𝓪 🐸 @princesalamwane]

The world is full of pain, but watching disabled dogs in wheelchairs discover the freedom of a garden makes it all disappear

[Lady Lawya @Parkerlawyer]

In 1998, I was fired from my corporate job while 9 months pregnant because and I quote, “my priorities would be elsewhere after the baby is born.”

The lawyer I hired told me I didn’t have a case because discrimination like “that” was almost impossible to prove.

So I got pissed.

Took the LSAT. Went to law school. Passed the bar. Had 3 more kids.

Twelve years later, another woman from that same company was fired for the same reason. She sued them for a million dollars, and won, partly because I had kept every piece of evidence from what happened to me years prior demonstrating a systemic pattern of discrimination against women.

That company no longer exists. My law practice is thriving. And that baby they said would derail my priorities? She’s a brilliant attorney now working at my firm.

Turns out my priorities were indeed, elsewhere.