Archive - I made this for you!

The art of creating a perfect marriage CV so a man will (finally) pick you

All the parts of myself I've changed at the behest of others.

Jun 9 • Faima Bakar

May 2026

Do you know the One you are asking?

Allah is not lessened by giving you everything you ask for.

May 14 • Faima Bakar

April 2026

Deleting Instagram was harder than putting on hijab

I see, I post. I experience, I post. I think, (therefore) I post.

Apr 7 • Faima Bakar

January 2026

Being in love with someone who no longer wants to be alive

Notes on loving a mentally unwell person. Trigger warning.

Jan 15 • Faima Bakar

December 2025

Rejecting a £90,000-salary job after three years of unemployment

Needless to say, it wasn't an easy decision.

Dec 2, 2025 • Faima Bakar

September 2025

How to decentre marriage and why we must

There are other worthwhile pursuits too; faith, friendship, community, world-building.

Sep 4, 2025 • Faima Bakar

June 2025

The price of my neck

I put on a hijab and realised its cost, but I'd do it again, a thousand times over.

Jun 25, 2025 • Faima Bakar

The brief but educational time I earned £60,000 to edit at a national newspaper

I went from working for myself to suddenly managing 24 people as a department head.

Jun 9, 2025 • Faima Bakar

February 2025

Why finding love should take a village

Does the search for love have to be an individual pursuit?

Feb 13, 2025 • Faima Bakar

December 2024

All these little sins

Every single day in 2024, I asked for forgiveness 1,000 times and it has transformed me.

Dec 22, 2024 • Faima Bakar

September 2024

Dating is fun, actually?

I've gone on nine first dates this year and it's taught me something about the compelling nature of the dating industrial complex.

Sep 19, 2024 • Faima Bakar

August 2024

The (s)talking stage: On the dating disadvantage of being an online person

Trigger warning!!!

Aug 15, 2024 • Faima Bakar