The Real Lives Of Salon Girls
Jan 20, 2025
Beauty workers in large Pakistani urban centres face a distinctive set of struggles with little recourse
Amna Chaudhry
Amna Chaudhry is a writer and activist who divides her time between Pakistan and Los Angeles. Her work includes reporting on Pakistan’s feminist, environmental, and labour movements for Guernica, Himal Southasian, Caravan, The Herald and Dawn. In 2021 she was a South Asia Speaks fellow for fiction. Her Substack, Modsquad, is a popular monthly publication for which she writes cultural criticism around the media, beauty and fashion industries in Pakistan. You can follow her on IG here: thisisthemodsquad