“Well, what else are you going to do?”: Dr. Mohammad Moiz on Drag, Activism, and Spirituality in Pakistan.
Dr. Mohammad Moiz talks to The LUMS Post about Khwaja Sira activism in Pakistan and how that the fight for justice is deeply rooted in their faith. They also talk about other things, like performing Drag, and fighting the normative every day.
I Tried Energy Healing (Reiki) for Stress
By: Khadija Faruqui I’m lying on a table in a dimly lit room. A woman I have just met has her hands clasped around my head. Save for the soft whirring of the fan above, the room is silent. I wait with bated breath, after all, if this worked, my life would never be the same. The woman is Mrs Riffat Irfan, and she has been a reiki practitioner for…
Art as Existence: Hum Ahang in Conversation with Dr. Muhammad Moiz
By: Zoha Fareed Chishti At 4:00 pm, on October 16, around thirty people, including myself, sat scattered on the cushions placed on the floor of one of the rooms of Cloud 9 Wellness Centre, in Gulberg Lahore. At the front of the room, three people were seated; Arhum Sarfraz ‘23, co-president of Hum Ahang, Mahnoor Ghani ‘22, LUMS alumnus and moderator for the day, and Dr. Mohammad Moiz, Khwaja Sira…
The Productivity Games: The New Summer Olympics
By Rida Arif The words ‘summer’ and ‘productivity’ should be oxymoronic, or at least they used to be when I didn’t know what the word ‘productive’ meant. If you close your eyes and think of summer, do you imagine a fluorescently lit office, Excel sheets, and the burning blue light from a work computer? Seemingly, that’s what our student body dreams of — a glowing resume is the ultimate oasis.…
“There’s Chicken in my Daal!”: The Struggle of Being Vegetarian and Pescatarian On-Campus
By Mahrukh Murad Dev Kumar ‘23, a rising junior at SDSB and a practicing Hindu, is a lacto-vegetarian* with a knack for staying cautiously optimistic. He shares, “When I moved to LUMS, I realised the cons of being vegetarian in Pakistan.” He quickly experienced his usual variety of vegetarian food options abundantly available in his hometown, Karachi, being swapped for daal and sabzi at PDC. According to Dev, “My main…
The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of Women’s Anger
By Laiba Ahmad With Illustration from Maha Nauman (@mahnau on Instagram) TW: Mentions of harassment and violence against women Three days after Noor Mukadam’s case broke out in the media my mother sat me down and said that if a man ever harassed me in public, I was to keep quiet and move on because we never know what men are capable of. What frustrated me was not the statement…