zindabad zine fm: Recent Episodes
zindabad zine
listen to the contributors to zindabad 002, and a few friends of the mag, read out pieces from the latest issue. grab a digital/print copy of the mag @ zindabadzine.bigcartel.com
Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sidrah Akhtar is a 28 year-old Pakistani poet in the UK. She is a teacher, reader, writer and collector of hobbies; she dabbles in painting, photography and martial arts. She has been writing since she was 13, but has only recently begun to showcase her work. She tends to write pieces focused on strong imagery: an encapsulation of one moment, one feeling.
order a copy of the mag for yourself @ zindabadzine.bigcartel.com
Zainab Imran is a Pakistani poet and writer based in the north-west of England and is currently studying English Literature and runs their university’s Literature Society. Their poetry surrounds the questioning factors of identity, from gender and asexuality to solving the intergenerational trauma of internalised misogyny and racism.
order a copy of the mag for yourself @ zindabadzine.bigcartel.com
Tasneem Maher is an Arab writer and poet who encourages theatrics and melodrama of any kind. A Best of the Net nominee, her work has been featured or is forthcoming in Vagabond City Lit, Kissing Dynamite, Flypaper Lit, and Jaffat El Aqlam, amongst others. She is also Fiction and Personal Essays Editor at Sumou Mag. She tweets @mythosgal.
order a copy of the mag for yourself @ zindabadzine.bigcartel.com
Rachana Kolliis currently learning about how humans work (physically and biochemically) and has always been interested in understanding how humans work (emotionally and metaphorically). When she’s not having a blast as the Fiction Editor of Masalazine, she is organizing her absurdly large Spotify library and resisting the urge to ballroom dance in a pandemic.
order a copy of the mag for yourself @ zindabadzine.bigcartel.com
Brandon Chu is a photographer and graphic designer who grew up between Shanghai and Toronto and is currently based in Hong Kong. He is passionate about language, history, and social justice. His writing, in terms of content and delivery, take inspiration from Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish and his writings about land, love and self.
order a copy of the mag for yourself @ zindabadzine.bigcartel.com
Manpreet Dhindsa is a 24 year old Indian bisexual woman from London, UK. Whilst pursuing a career in singing/songwriting, her other projects touch on navigating being bisexual and Asian. You can watch her in 'Pride and Protest', a documentary produced by Rainbow Films. She is usually found stealing cats in the local neighbourhood, and crying to Avatar Lofi music.
order a copy of the mag for yourself @ zindabadzine.bigcartel.com
hasti is a British-Iranian poet and screenwriter living in South East London. A member of the Ledbury Poetry Critics and the Southbank New Poets Collective, hasti has published poems in The Poetry Review and PERVERSE mag, and runs monthly open mic night Fresh Lip.
order a copy of the mag for yourself @ zindabadzine.bigcartel.com
Sakina Abidiis a history and journalism graduate, currently working in editorial in Hong Kong. An Indian Shia, her work touches on home, nostalgia, identity, and the subcontinent. You can find her poetry in Maps For Teeth, The Ideate Review, and The Brown Orient.
order a copy of the mag for yourself @ zindabadzine.bigcartel.com
Jade Khan is a mixed race creative born and raised in London. She is of Bangladeshi, Bajan and Scottish heritage and is passionate about making art in its many forms as well as amplifying the voices of people of colour and diaspora in the UK; for her, these often intersect in important ways. She is currently studying Classics at the University of Oxford.
order a copy of the mag for yourself @ zindabadzine.bigcartel.com
Sanaa Mirzis a queer, black, Muslim woman and writer/poet. Sanaa believes in the importance of accurate and positive representation and can be found with a cup of tea and good novel in hand most days. And emerging writer who began publishing her work last year, Sanaa hopes to make others feel seen. e @sanaamirz_poet
Read by Angela King
order a copy of the mag for yourself @ zindabadzine.bigcartel.com
cia, editor-at-large, reads her editor's letter for issue 003. order a copy of the mag for yourself @ zindabadzine.bigcartel.com
Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
welcome to zindabad zine i003: shame / desire !
Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
maya panasar reads their poem 'english rose' from zindabad i001 - read the rest @ zindabadzine.co.uk
Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
nooresahar's brilliant + thought-provoking essay from issue 001 about beauty standards, whiteness, and the age of instagram face. read it @ zindabadzine.co.uk
Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
from issue 001: cia's essay about rupi kaur's milk and honey, canva infographics, and that scene from bigg boss.
Zindabad's editor Cia chats to (zinterviews!) Ali Al-Jamri.
Ali Al-Jamri is a Bahraini poet, translator and editor based in the UK. In 2021, he edited Between Two Islands: Poetry by Bahrainis in Britain(No Disclaimers) and guest-edited ArabLit Quarterly: FOLK. His poems and translations have been published in Modern Poetry in Translation, ArabLit Quarterly, Poetry Birmingham, Harana, Bahr Magazine, Consilience, Zindabad, and anthologies, and has been featured at the Liverpool Arab Arts Festival. He curated the Manchester Poetry Library's Arabic Language Collection and is a New Writing North Arabic Translation mentee. Twitter: @ali_mn_aljamri. Instagram: @alialjamri_scribbles.
The Milled Up Years: https://www.instagram.com/p/CNUe2h2rd5u/
comes the sea: https://www.instagram.com/p/CXjvvT9Lnxg/
The Fall of Awal (Ali's first ever poem): https://www.instagram.com/p/CFblKNAnQDh/
Gargi Bhattacharyya lives and works in London. Their chaotic found family is very much open for business.
Nazmia Jamal lives in Cardiff with her cat Bilal. She is one of your favourite aunties.
Sara Hashmi is a second year university student. Her biggest secret is that despite being Pakistani, she doesn't actually like mangoes.
Read by Cia Mangat
Saz Kwok (any pronouns) is a Hongkonger. They are now based in Oxford, studying for Philosophy and Linguistics at Somerville College there. Having grown up with Western culture and at a school founded by colonizers, they continue to explore their messy connection with their roots through writing and art, despite the ongoing destruction of those very roots due to the city's political situation. Like water, they and many other Hongkongers are leaving the city permanently after massive and rapid crackdowns on freedom in the city.
Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
Kamran Sajid is a 21-year-old artist currently based in Manchester. He exhibited his artwork at Eighteen in Twenty Eighteen; and also featured in a poetry exhibition at the Harris Museum. He is currently studying English. Find him on Instagram: @kamransajid_
Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ami J. Sanghvi is an Indian-American, queer author, artist, boxer, Eric Hoffer Book Award finalist, and recent graduate from the CalArts Creative Writing M.F.A. program. She is also the co-founder and co-editor of Gut Slut Press. Her work has recently appeared in So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, Inverted Syntax, Humana Obscura, I Hope You’ll Still Love Me: A South Asian LGBTQIA+ Anthology, and other publications and exhibitions.
Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
Kiran Dhillon is the daughter to a Punjabi family who migrated to England between 1980 and 1990 and moved between London, Huddersfield and Birmingham. With a strong tie to the maternal side of her Punjabi ancestry she is interested in how the Punjabi diaspora can be seen in quotidian moments of domesticity. In her poetry she also explores the dissonance of navigating Punjabi identity in English spaces through disrupting a non-Punjabi speaker's reading of her poem by mixing English and Punjabi registers.
Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
Chin Yuqin (Casey) is a Singaporean Chinese artist and writer, curious about language, play, and imagining the otherworldly. Casey works with mixed media, including illustration, writing, sculpture, and film. You can see more at: chinyuqin.carrd.co
Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
Salonee Verma is an Indian-American emerging writer from Virginia. Their work is published or is forthcoming in Backslash Lit, Pollux Journal, [sub]liminal, Southchild Lit and more. She has been recognized in the Scholastic Arts & Writing Awards. Find him online at saloneeverma.carrd.co.
Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
Victoria Fletcher is a Foyle Young Poet and came second in the Tower Poetry Competition. Her hobbies include long walks in the rain and trying to live up to the expectations of her Polish parents.
Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
Salonee Verma is an Indian-American emerging writer from Virginia. Their work is published or is forthcoming in Backslash Lit, Pollux Journal, [sub]liminal, Southchild Lit and more. She has been recognized in the Scholastic Arts & Writing Awards. Find him online at saloneeverma.carrd.co.
Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
Cia Mangat edits Zindabad Zine. She is a Foyle Young Poet and Barbican Young Poets alum. At the moment, she studies English at uni.
Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
Michelle Ramaa is a Tamil-American poet who enjoys studying the history and culture of the South Asian diaspora, particularly South India.
Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
Poem by Tara Kavasseri
Tara Kavasseri is a first-year at the University of California, Irvine. When she isn't writing or procrastinating, she is probably lost somewhere in Northern California. She can be found on twitter and instagram @tarakavasseri.
Read by Amina Beg
Amina Beg is a Manchester-based spoken word poet, writer and artist. She enjoys performing and writing scripts for plays and film. She aims to use her platform in the arts to criticise and question societies prejudice. Find her recent projects @aminabeg05
Aisha Borja is a young Colombian, Dutch and English poet based and studying in East London. She writes primarily about her crazy loud family, her gorgeous friends and the last new person she met. She hopes one day soon she will be able to start reading her poems out to a physically present crowd and meet other young poets.
Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
mochizuki eiji is a film student based in edinburgh. they have a passion for writing, illustration and music. their biggest inspirations are bong joon ho and rian phin. they work as a staff contributor at @cafe.au.lait.mag and you can find them on ig @pixxieprint.
Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sanaa Mirz is a queer Black Muslim woman and a poet/writer. Sanaa began to write in order to create the representation she lacked growing up and to explore her own individuality. Sanaa believes in the importance of representing intersectional marginalized identities. She believes in the fluidity and complexity of identity.
read by Rosa Arthur
Farah is a British Pakistani poet. Her work discusses topics such as nostalgia, culture and religion. In her free time, she enjoys browsing the internet and baking.
read by Henna Amin
Pragna Challapalli is a Law with French Law student at the University of Oxford. She was born in Andhra Pradesh, South India, and grew up in Glasgow.
Read by Rachana Kolli
Natalie Perman studies English and German at university. She is a 2017 and 2018 winning and commended Foyle Young Poet and has won the Forward Student Critics’ Award as well as the Mapleton-Bree Prize 2020. She has served as Editor-in-chief of the Oxford Review of Books, is current Editor-in-Chief of The Isis Magazine and a Poetry Reader for The Adroit Journal. She is published or forthcoming with bath magg, The White Review and The ASH.
Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
read by zindabad zine editor, cia mangat
Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
welcome to zindabad fm! keep yr eyes peeled for audio versions of the pieces from zindabad zine issue 002, read by their authors as well as a few friends of the zine...
Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.