The Stigma Of Moving Back In With Your Parents Is So Uniquely American (Romper)

The Stigma Of Moving Back In With Your Parents Is So Uniquely American (Romper)

In other collectivist societies, including my own Indo-Pak Muslim culture, it’s more uncommon to leave home if you’re single — and especially if you’re a single woman — than it is to stay, even if you’re financially stable and thriving. In fact, leaving home might even feel like a rejection to your parents, the way it still seems to make my own father feel.

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How Fiza Pirani Would Fix Atlanta (HIFA Zine)

How Fiza Pirani Would Fix Atlanta (HIFA Zine)

What does it mean to cultivate and protect a home you only met in adulthood? To be intentional about creating a new life in a community while honoring the longtime residents and neighbors who might view me as an intruder, a gentrifier, that new millennial on the block?

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