0:00 Intro 1:05 My existence2:20 Women have a very specific role4:40 Your choice is taken away from you 5:40 symbolic meaning of women are less than 6:40 The boys receive double the inheritance 10:00 A divorce is really challenging 12:00 Made to marry my mother's cousin 13:10 Honour killing - Somaiya Begum14:40 No guidance 15:40 I want to go to University17:10 That was not part of my life plan 19:00 Each battle I won eroded my faith and belief 21:20 More likely to be on benefits 22:30 Marriage is the most important thing25:40 Managing a family 27:50 Repeating the cycle 35:40 Work is so important as it allow you to network37:15 Your circle of people will limit you 43:30 Establish relationships46:40 Co parenting54:30 Fear paralyses us 1:00:20 The less of honour killings, arranged marriage and FGMNazreen Bibi was born and raised in the UK in a Mirpuri Sunni Muslim household. On her 16th birthday she had hopes of completing A levels and going to university however her parents had other plans. Instead they travelled abroad to Pakistan, and Nazreen was married to her mother’s cousin (her uncle), someone she knew nothing about. She recalls asking her mother if she could say no and her answer was “no, your grandad gave his word” and that was that. Soon after her marriage, her mother told her that she was to do whatever her husband wanted and that if she refused s*x the devil would curse her all night. Nazreen soon became pregnant and gave birth to her daughter at age 17. The following 12 years, Nazreen spent fighting for freedom, freedom to work, freedom to have phone and freedom to wear what she wanted to wear. Fuelled with anger at the end of her twelve-year marriage, she could see how religion and culture shaped her parents’ choices and world view, and how the teachings of Islam demanded the total subjugation of women. Nazreen’s parents stopped talking to her after her divorce and so she rebuilt her life as a single parent. Her experience only confirmed what she had now grown to accept in that Islam was designed by men for men. Divorced women were deemed as used goods, a women’s identity and personhood reduced to her reproductive parts and womb. Since her divorce she’s been actively engaged in local politics, completed her degree and runs her own business. Now an exMuslim, Nazreen recently has come out as an atheist, speaking out against the generational religious ab*se .