Dr. B. Zainab

Dr. B. Zainab Social Activist | Doctoral Degree In Pharmacy | Trainee Therapist at CPPD Pakistan |

Writer | Photographer |

Collab/Queries: bbzainab10@gmail

Tu hai anjaan kyun?
26/05/2026

Tu hai anjaan kyun?

Advice like this can be a helpful reminder but it also really narrows down the whole “not being able to ask for help” in...
22/05/2026

Advice like this can be a helpful reminder but it also really narrows down the whole “not being able to ask for help” into a very reductionist view.

Sometimes, the reason you don’t feel safe enough to ask for what you need directly is because you already anticipate emotional rejection from the other end. Your nervous system has already registered the possibility of dismissal, minimisation, neglect, or emotional invalidation. Your subconscious already knows that this need may not be met and expressing it might leave you even more emotionally dysregulated or distraught.

This is quite layered but one of the ways not asking for help directly doesn’t come from an incapability to ask for it, but from an avoidant and protective place. A defence mechanism shaped by repeated relational experiences.

Sometimes, avoiding the ask is easier than confronting the painful reality that the other person may lack the emotional capacity, empathy, or willingness to hold your needs with care.

Because sometimes the fear is not “what if they say no?”

Sometimes the fear is having to fully accept that they consistently dehumanise you, belittle your emotional needs, or make you feel psychologically unsafe to the point that even if you ask directly, they still will not show up for you.

12/05/2026

14 years ago today, I made this page.

Back then, it was just me photographing streets and small corners of my surroundings, writing about how I understood the world as a teenager, what studying medicine felt like, producing videos from my Nikon D3100, raising funds and a hundred other little things.

Somewhere along the way, meaning-making in the ordinary became the quiet motto of my life.

Over the years, this page changed names many times and slowly gathered almost 8k followers. Some of you know me from my university days. Some from the blogging era. Some remember the photography, the videos and the social justice campaigns.

Some blogs went viral. Some reels travelled farther than I expected. And every single time, I found comfort in one thought: I am not alone in seeing the world this way.

14 years later, in the near future, for the last time (if Facebook allows 🤞), this page will be changing its name once again :)

Thank you for staying with me through all these years🙏❤️

People are speaking. Repeating. Trying.They stop when they are not heard, again and again.Maybe the problem isn’t that p...
01/05/2026

People are speaking. Repeating. Trying.
They stop when they are not heard, again and again.

Maybe the problem isn’t that people don’t speak.
Maybe we just don’t listen.

13/04/2026

Please get in touch if you would like to sponsor kids school fee.

Its 2k per month for one kid.
Some of you might know that I take care of academic expenses of few children with the help of some geneorus people, we are 3 donors short currently for monthly school fee.

Also, If you want to donate for school supplies, course for the new session, stationary and uniforms. Please get in touch and spread the word✨️

22/03/2026

Slide #5: Taste just like lettuce.

And with that Eid 2026 sounds about right.

07/03/2026

This war was never about women. It is a war fought by men, for reasons that have already been stated openly: fragile egos, power struggles and dark political agendas however what people keep on engaging with is the familiar script "West saving women” the language of liberation wrapped around violence.

What many are calling imperial feminism, is just plain old imperialism.

Patriarchy is one of the greatest threats to women and to peace in the world. We are so scared to name it that we keep circling around the narratives of women related causes and not blame the reality of toxic masculinity and male ego which has the whole planet suffering at the moment.

Women continue to be ki//ed in wars and outside of them, every single day. So this Women’s Day, perhaps the most honest place to start is this: listen to women. Stop speaking for them. Stop demonizing their cause. Stop deciding on their behalf.

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