To help celebrate Pride during the pandemic, I decided to talk about “reconciliation” on the Anthems podcast. I chose this because, where I am in life right now – especially in lockdown – I’m thinking about reconciliation in all of my identity.

I describe myself as a very intersectional person and my life has really been about struggling with all the identities that make me who I am: British; of south Asian heritage; Pakistani; from a Muslim background; transgender; part of the queer community; disabled (I’m on the blind spectrum).

Throughout my life I’ve had to really deal with acknowledging these labels. But, through reconsilliation, I realise that rather than letting five or six labels define Asifa Lahore, actually, Asifa Lahore defines these labels. Asifa Lahore is one fluid person. All those labels are part of her.

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