magicallypriy

 I was born and raised in England, so even though I have always been immersed in the Western culture – I myself am Indian. I know that I’m privileged in the sense that I don’t face the same brutalities of racism that my Black and darker skinned POC counterparts face. However, I am a brown skinned Desi girl living in a predominantly white country so racism, microaggressions and discrimination aren’t things that I am a stranger to. This blog post has been something I’ve been thinking of writing for a while so I thought I would finally write it and share some things that I’ve faced/heard in real life and in the media as an Indian living in the UK. Do you eat curry every day? With this one, I feel like white people just learnt the word curry and ran with it as the only Indian food word they knew – particularly growing up in the 00s. They truly thought “curry” was one kind of dish and was the only dish that Indian people ate (I’m sure some people still think like this). I also had s...

As I’ve mentioned before, reading is a form of escapism for me and I absolutely love getting lost in the pages and sucked into a new world. I was debating on whether I should publish a blog post sharing book recommendations based on what I’ve read recently and after asking around and receiving positive feedback, I decided that I would go ahead with it. I shared one list of book recommendations back in February for LGBT History Month, but from now on I will try and share a post with a few book recommendations every so often. The books I share will be diverse and will cover different genres (a lot of YA and romance stories) and I will also be sure to include trigger warnings. Anyway, enough of me babbling on and onto the list… One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston Let me start off by saying this book is everything .   I was completely obsessed with it when I was reading it and I definitely cried at least three times during and after finishing it. The story follows cynical August who b...

 I am once again guilty of abandoning this blog, and I truly have no other excuse for it apart from lack of inspiration. The lack of inspiration left me feeling disconnected from my blog but having gotten into reading a lot more again this year as well as starting a new writing project (I’m sure I’ll touch on that more in the future), I’ve found myself missing writing for this blog but still desperately trying to find inspiration. With impeccable timing, yesterday we attended Sharon Sexton and Rob Fowler’s ‘The Boy Next Door: Concert Presentation’ and as soon as it ended, I knew I wanted (and needed) to share my thoughts slightly more coherently than I could manage in person or on Twitter. With a time limit of sixty minutes, Sexton and Fowler, along with the talents of Steve Corley, Liam Ross Mills, Jessica Cervi, Stuart Boother and Sam Cassidy, shared a beautiful glimpse into this heart wrenching musical by Rob Fowler and book by Stephen Clark. Grief is sadly something that ...