Runaway Swede

Male. 21. Queer. Muslim. Socialist. Sous Chef. Traveler. Citizen of the World.

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Sometimes I wonder if you ever really cared.

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Post-storm, Yosemite.

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nature blog

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nature blog

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I meant it when I told you that I didn't feel loved.

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Santa Caterina del Sasso, Italy

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Slums of Beverly Hills (1998), Tamara Jenkins

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Samar Minallah Khan’s films focus primarily on the practice of swara, where a daughter is given away as compensation for a crime. Swara happens mainly in poor, rural areas.

An anthropologist and documentarian who grew up in Pakistan but was educated in England, she started investigating swara in the early 2000s. The more she learned, the more upset she became. In 2003, her documentary Swara — A Bridge Over Troubled Water, profiled victims and their families.

Khan went into rural regions and spoke with men who had been forced to give a daughter or sister away as compensation for a crime or to settle a family feud. Her work challenged the norms in very traditional areas of Pakistan; she faced intimidation and death threats. And she still does. Most of the initial footage for her most recent documentary on swara was unusable because the cameraman was shaking from fear.

Those challenges have led Khan to find an unlikely protagonist for her documentaries. Over and over, she was impressed by the men who opposed this practice.

“Men, too, face hurdles for speaking up and for challenging norms,” she says. “Standing up in the face of society and country expectations, that takes a lot of courage.”

Filmmaker Wants To Stop Fathers From Giving Up Their Daughters

Photo: Courtesy of Samar Minallah Khan

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I’m on an emotional roller coaster right now. I am currently seeing someone who I think is an amazing and sweet guy. But I am TERRIFIED that something will happen and things will end. I have never been jealous before in my life, and jealousy does not feel good. I do not like that feeling. However, I also have never had someone look at me with such happiness and joy. Ever. My emotions are through the roof and I just want everything to be okay because he seems like such a sweet, caring, and loving guy. The uncertainty is making me go insane. 

Sorry for this rant I need an outlet. 

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I've come so far.

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