Author: Mehnaaz Hossain

Two-piece “prom” style dresses with intricate beading and often, a matching scarf, are all over my Pinterest currently. I like to call this trend “lehenga lite.” I propose a similar, inverse, trend called “shalwar kameez lite”, where we should all think about a dress and pants as two halves of the same outfit.

I’ve stretched my four-walled canvas out to infinity with memories and feelings — it’s become a museum of my life. When I inevitably have to peel the blu-tack off, I hope I can give all my trinkets —and by extension, myself— new meaning.

Each piece of the show spotlights the sheer talent and enduring impact that POC have had on the performing arts, and the necessity of cultivating this inclusive atmosphere in all theatre, everywhere.

In our current era, choice feminism and postfeminism collide inside an online algorithm which favours therapy-speak and is designed specifically to dissuade nuance and maximise profit margins, creating a toxic narrative: the widespread and mindless glorification of values and behaviours that uphold patriarchy, using the language of ‘feminism’.