the phenomenon of bigots being fans of something they should disagree with if they were actually able to engage with its message & the world around them is so fascinating. but it makes sense when you know they have a lense of bigotry that divides them from reality. bigotry is not based on anything logical, it's something they have to project onto everything/ everyone that then reflects back onto themselves that they then percieve as reality when it's just themselves. bigotry is their own made-up fears, insecurities, etc. they have to exert control in order to assauge these made-up fears, which leads to all these systemic violences. perhaps it's to cope with the inherent chaos of living, but it's definitely to try to secure a higher point on the current hierarchy we are forced to experience. rambling but yeah, they cannot engage in the message of anything in a meaningful way, they do not have the skills to desire to have empathy to immerse in a story different from their own. that's also why they express that their values are the most normal & broad experience when it's just their own, pretty much exclusively white, experience that they then project onto things that doesn't always work. i forgot who said it but some conservatives were trying to say star trek wasn't political except for a few episodes maybe lol same with conservatives who show disappointment when rage against the machine expresses progressive ideology lol
This isn't the point of the show at all but it's so refreshing to see shows about people who 'aren't' teenagers still struggling to find themselves. I feel seen, even as an agnostic.
@danishakhairufahima4770 It feels more about watching Muslim women specifically struggling with balancing their personal issues and desires with their faith and love of their faith, but I also haven't seen it yet!!! I'm not muslim, so that's not my specific struggle, but it's close enough for me to still relate to and feel seen by it. Plus, I just love any media put out nowadays that isn't about teens (no offense to teenagers, but they get the lions share of the genres I'm interested in!!!)
@@princessmiaxo it's brilliant, you should watch it. I'm a white woman and I could still relate to all the characters. Plus the balance of comedy and drama is absolutely pitch perfect the whole way through, I can't think of a better example
@@rgorojovskyyes Punks could be anything from radical anarchists to white nationalist skinheads. But the Hobie Browns(Spiderpunk) of the world are the best of Punks
Something I found cool was that after Saira did the censorship ‘song’ (I won’t mention the wa-) the credits rolled with a song by Palestinian singer, Rasha Nahas. She made an appearance in Momtaz’s studio singing the same song. 🇵🇸 (There was also a cameo by Elaha Soroor, an Afghan singer who was one of the first female singers to publically perform after the fall of the Taliban).
I’m so happy you’re talking about this show. It’s so ground breaking and shows Muslim women as normal every day people that any one can relate to. It’s so well filmed, written and acted. Wish it was more popular.
it's also kind of interesting a show about the same genre which attacked similar immigrant groups like the ones that the women when those immigrant groups came to the uk in the 50s, 60s and 70s
@@ogome2927 When did punk ever attack immigrant groups? Bad Brains is one of the most popular and definitive punk rock groups of all time and they were fronted completely by black people, X-Ray Spex also was fronted by a bi-racial female and Lora Logic who's hindu. The Monochrome Set was fronted by Bid who was indian. Modern Lovers was fronted by Jonathan Richman who was jewish. Raincoats & the Slits were complete female groups, many punk bands also played rock against racism, punk in the early days was used as a conduit for social justice and change, many people who felt like they had nowhere to go no matter what background or race they were felt understood by the punk crowd, the hell are you talking about?
This video made me tear up. I’m not Muslim, but I’m 17, Indian, and queer. I’d say I’m currently in the phase you talked about in the beginning of the video, I love all those classic punk bands and have always felt a longing to see brown women in this space I’m so passionate about. Manzoor’s quote about wanting to be the brown Bob Dylan especially resonated since I think I’ve thought the exact same thing to myself multiple times before. I’d heard of this show in passing but I’m definitely going to watch it now. Anyone who says identity politics have no place in punk can fuck off
i'm sorry but from where i'm from in the uk i associate that type of music and fans instantly with right wing politics mainly due to the fact the punk fans were racist who would normally attack black and indian immigrants, poc punk artist are different as i don't associate them with the yt ones but the yt ones? i'm sorry but i heavily affiliate them with inherent right wing ideologies bc of the fans they tended to attract which caused massive trauma to a generation of immigrants reason why ppl such as my mom who was a child of immigrants couldn't stand them for such a long time.
@@ogome2927I’m from America so my view of them is almost the opposite. I could see a band like the sex pistols attracting a more right-wing crowd but yeah it really is terrible to see people take the anti establishment message of punk to fuel their own shitty ideologies. Especially since imo one of its forefathers (the mc5) was founded on radical leftist ideology and punk (at least to me) continually stands against such conservative ideas. Hope your mother is doing well I know growing up in Britain during that era as an immigrant must have been really shitty. My parents grew up in India so they didn’t deal with that same backlash so there’s less generational trauma when it comes to the genre but I totally understand your view
We are lady parts is by far one of my favorite shows. I’m very religious as well (Jewish) and even though the show isn’t about my faith I could definitely relate to all the characters but it was awesome as well to learn about the nuances of and struggles and joys of being a Muslim woman. I particularly liked Ayesha’s arc in season two, I’m always so used to seeing queer stories told through secular or Christian lenses and it was so nice to see someone on screen whose journey so closely mirrors my own. We are lady parts is so amazing, it is a life changing show!!!!!!
Came to say just this. As a non-binary queer and religious Jew, I saw aspects of myself in all the girls and what I didn't relate to, I'm glad I learned. This show has almost a transcendental quality in its depiction of humanity and i love media like that.
I love this comment so much! I'm a muslim and my partner is Jewish. It's so beautiful how much our faith, culture and experiences can mirror each other so deeply. It makes me really happy and proud to see comments like these. Have a good day!
i'm black and lesbian and was raised in a muslim family. i decided to leave the faith because i felt that i couldn't reconcile my queer identity with constantly being told that i'm sinning and i don't belong. i haven't watched this show yet, but just from watching this video, i felt something start to heal in me. i'm so glad a show like this exists. i wish i could have seen it years ago when i needed something like this most, but better late than never.
@@che3rub what does this mean "the strength coming back"? if you get oppressed down by religion or by people who stick to a certain extreme belief system, why should you go back to them, I'd rather say RUN and live your life happily, stand tall.
Hey, I don’t know how far you’ve come since that comment, but just so you know from someone who’s living the same situation, you do belong. No one can tell you otherwise, God has never said to run away from him when you’re afraid, quite the opposite. Wether you consider your situation a sin or not, it’s up to you to live your faith how you feel it. I always remind myself nobody was meant to be perfect and yes it might be demeaning for some people to see it like that but it has helped me cutting some slack. God is the most merciful and I won’t let anyone convince me otherwise. Bless you sister and I hope you find peace.
As a black woman who grew up in Islam and still follows parts of the Hadith to this day, this show sits near and dear to my heart. The liberation🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
If anyone is wondering the show is streaming on Peacock. I stumbled across it randomly, decided to put it on, and ended up binging the entire series in a day and a half. 10/10
@@lemonline3719 yeah, i had no idea either until i saw this video. Sometimes it's nice that the algorithm has an idea about what i like even if i haven't watched anything about ladyparts in yt before.
for anyone like me who couldnt quite catch the band name but wanted to find it on spotify, its spelled voice of baceprot. Cant wait to check out the album rec
I have been a "goth" since I was a teenager, but a lot of people have said that when they met me they assumed I was more of a "punk" and I think that's probably due to the fact that I have a definite punk mindset. Similar to the punk genre, goth is very identity-based, but punk has more fire. Punk is incredibly anti-establishment and, like a lot of the things I grew up falling in love with, wildly anti-right wing. Thank you for sharing your journey into discovering **all** of punk, especially the parts often ignored by most.
that's likely because the goth scene emerged out of the punk scene and retained a lot of the style and ideology of punk (hence post-punk music). there's a huge amount of overlap, and if you look at pictures of early goths, they tend to look much more like our modern idea of what punk looks like. the goth scenes i've been involved in have all been overtly political and anti-establishment in the same way, it's really just a musical, semantic, and stylistic separation. just a lil history i got from some of my goth elders that i thought i'd pass along :)
i love this show a lot. I love how season 2 decided to explore more of each band member and not just mainly Amina. Learning each person's relationship with their identity and their role in society was so good.
As a Brown Asian Muslim girl who is very much flawed but still got ambitions to do my own thing one day, I can't explain how much I felt seen through this series. This is one of my favourite series of all time 💙
it's acc a pretty decent show ngl as well better than polite society i feel like i put it on the tier below the bend it like beckham, east is east tier of brown asian movies/tv show category so still a good tier ngl
From Indonesia, and I only aware of We Rae The Lady Parts because it reacted by Voice of Baceprot (VoB), the real women (in hijab) metal band, also mentioned in this video.
One of my all-time favorite movie characters now is Hobie from across the spider verse. I love his character design and how it enthralls you so well and like that punk aesthetic without it just being so superficial where he really is an anarchist and political a great example of what punk is about. I love that Daniel Kaluuya voices him. I read somewhere that the directors just told him that they what they wanted the character to be and they told him to just do his thing and he voiced him perfectly.
We are lady parts is so so close my to my heart. Every one in this series is someone I know : my grand parents, my parents, my aunts, my cousins and my friends. Layered, human, flawed and unique. I cried and laughed so many times
Unfortunately i can not watch this show because the “bad” Muslim narrative tackled with love or passive aggressive is something that gives me a level off dread I’m just not in the mood to unpack but i really love the clip you showed of her not deciding to come out cause it is an important and valuable choice actually not in a pitiful way and the one thing about this show that scared me the most was an outing scene this video is lovely one day i hope to overcome my gripes with religion and watch it but for know im recommending it to everyone
very fair. tbh thats what i first felt when I heard about the show when season one was just airing. watched some of it today while I was still a little scared but it was genuinely so fun! the comedy of it all and the cinematography got me through the "tough" parts. hope you can watch it some time soon ! sending ya all the positive energy in the world 🍀✨🌟
discovered the show last year and have been forcing my friends to watch it too. hands down one of my favourite shows of all time, and fully cried at ayesha's speech in s2 it hit so hard
Thank you so much for sharing this. I didnt even know abt We Are Lady Parts and it makes me happy knowing that there is some more popular media like this exists. Ill definitely have to check it out.
Lady parts is full stop my favourite show in the entire world. I get so happy when someone makes a video about it because I was absolutely devastated when I finished it and no longer had content to watch. I absolutely adore the music in it both the original songs and the featured music like Don McLean. Oh my gosh. Just an incredible show.
I loved season 1 of this show but I thought it got canceled. I'm thrilled to hear season 2 is out, I'm def gonna watch it, as soon as my summer classes are finished
this series is acc better than polite society imho it has more of a realistic touch and realistic flavour to it which makes me prefer it ngl the ott zaniness of polite society kind of made me put off it tbh and i also think this show balances the female and male south asian groups instead of what i felt put one above the other as well
Tina Bell was either too early or too late. Subgenres are cyclical, and Bam Bam suffered for not being enough like the flavor of the era. They would have been huge if they'd moved to the UK. She should be a household name.
@@mperezmcfinn2511 She was doing grunge in 1983, they came way too early, and influenced many of the bands who would go on to be grunge superstars. I'm surprised she hasn't gotten a doc on her yet
@kelechi_77 Bam Bam had a similar sound to Soundgarden at that time and even shared a drummer. It was a very English post-punk sound with a hint of metal. And, like Soundgarden, they were heavily influenced by Killing Joke. Sometime around 85-86, the early Black Sabbath sound became the dominant ingredient in early grunge, while the very 80s English post punk elements were widely abandoned in favor of late 60s/early 70s aesthetics. Bam Bam probably would have been huge had they stayed together and either adopted a heavier, more early 70s stoner rock sound (like Soundgarden, Nirvana, etc did) or evolved a more non-synth based heavy Chicago sound (like Jesus Lizard). Either way, they would have been huge if they had moved to England.
The tour of Mumtaz's studio made me want to cry just seeing such sisterhood and support in one place and sent me down a rabbit hole finding all the songs
The final scene of the penultimate episode of season two features the greatest fourth wall break I have ever seen. When the show itself literally begins to censor Saira as she tries to express her outrage regarding specific ongoing atrocities in our world today, I could not believe my eyes. I could hardly process what I was feeling. It is such a genius and heartfelt expression, directly from the creators of the show about the very limitations of corporate funded art simultaneously in and out of universe. Never have I ever seen anything like it and I don’t believe I’ll ever see anything come close to this level of effectiveness again regarding breaking the fourth wall to make a point directly to the audience.
I'd only seen mini previews of the show before and didn't think it'd be more than a surface-level comedy- but this video has made me DESPERATE to watch it. Schedule cleared, binging tomorrow!
No way!! I'm so excited for this, I think I even suggested your thoughts on Muslim women in media as a video topic on patreon. No idea if that was where you got the idea from but I can't wait to watch it when I finish making dinner.
One thing I am always weirded out by in Western media involving Muslims is how its only conception of being a Muslim is being a devout Muslim in some way. Born and raised in a “Muslim” country to a “lower class”, emigrant Muslim family i have rarely if ever interacted with practising let alone devout folk, it is the exception. Even among conservative circles it is the minority. Which wouldn’t be weird if we were talking about a predominantly Christian, Western society but even non-Muslim immigrants who lived here for years are confused by it as if it was some impossible oddity. If people instead weren’t knobbers like that they’d perhaps understand that the religion itself is just a component part of Islam as a sociocultural phenomenon (that interacts with culture racialisation language etc) and free themselves from the weird bollocks idea that being a Muslim punk rock musician is impossible because punk is anti-religious/establishment. There’s more that can be talked about on that last point but the true thorn in my side is this very annoying double standard. And then you’d imagine they’d spare us non-religious folk of Muslim background the islamophobia at least but that’s not happening either. Which is ofc because Islam is primarily an ethno-racial category, rather than merely religion… of which devotion, orientalist preconceptions, anti-Arab/SWANA stereotypes are among central features… Anyways, this is a ramble but I don’t feel like devoting 😜 the time it takes to write a critical essay to writing a youtube comment. Who experiences it knows it.
I don't know how I feel about this show tbh with you. I don't think it paints an entirely truthful picture of how muslim women struggle with observing the faith and expressing themselves. As someone who grew up muslim up I don't think it was stereotypes that stifled my expression and how I saw myself it was like literal scripture?
i think it can be both. i'm a queer person who was raised as a girl in a muslim family and i struggled throughout my life bc of religious trauma AND islamophobia. like my parents were awful but i also couldn't access help bc adults were like "oh that's what your people are like" and would dehumanize us both. i have some friends who are converts and i think they have a more nuanced and healthier vision of islam than the one i was raised with i also think scripture has been interpreted in an increasingly conservative way for a long time, i don't think the spirit of the religion relies on following every rule or being exclusionary. i'm rambling, i hope this makes sense
I think it varies. I’m a Muslim women, I grew up with very loving and supporting parents. The islamaphobia we received in our shabby southern town was insane.
Really sick breakdown. When this came out I was hooked, it's a shame a lot of my mates here in England don't think it'd be for them, coz as a white, Christian born transdude I still resonate and enjoy the storylines in We Are Lady Parts coz it's well funny and cool in its art style. It's so cool that this show reached yall in America!
thank u so much for sharing this show w us... depictions of muslima's different relationships w islam are always dear to me as someone who is still figuring it out !!!
Me too, he's SO pretty, lol 😂 Edit: actually, Voldemort Under My Headscarf is my favorite. I just can't read or hear "Bashir with the good beard" without finishing the whole chorus!! You can say you think I'm weird all you want 🤣🤙🏾💕
i love this show sm. even tho i'm from Latin America, Argentina, i can relate to these girls & see a little bit of myself in each and one of them. when i was a teen, punk music was my life, it shaped & changed me in so many ways, made me feel less alone & i've always dreamed about having my own punk band. i'll be 30 soon, but this wasn't a phase, i still listen to it on a daily basis, i just don't dress the same lol. that shows you that punk is so much more than that. THANK YOU FOR YOUR WONDERFUL VIDEO 🤍🤘🏼
I’m neither Muslim nor black, but your video last year about _Polite Society_ made me check out the first season of this show and I loved every minute of it! Great music, great writing. I was so happy to hear season 2 was coming soon - I honestly thought it was canceled
Your videos have shown me so much over the years. Like many fans of creativity, I am starved for new images, new narratives, and new perspectives that surprise the world.
Yhara, thank you for telling me that season 2 came out. I had to immediately stop watching this video to go sign up and binge season 2. It's such a good show! The writing, the cast and characterization, the songs, all absolutely brilliant!
Latinas in punk have been ignored up to this day. Alice Bag of The Bags is probably one of the most influential I can think of. In Mexico Julieta Venegas of the band Tinjuana No! is also a pioneer. I always tell folks who complain about music that the good stuff won’t come to them. They need to get off their behinds and search for it themselves.
The discussion of white saviourist Islamophobia and the punk/alt scene reminds me of the MASSIVE Islamophobia in the metal scene. If it's not outright racism, it's this white saviour, "oppressed Musilm girl saved by Western Values or murdered by Islam" theme that saturates the entire scene ( -cough- -cough- Epica -cough- -cough- After Forever). There's like, no nuance.
it's not like punk and ult are so kind to Christians either .... i think it has more to do with the anti theist anti establishment nature of these communities , they were a rising against societal norms and a direct demonstration against purity culture and religious dominance
isn't what you are doing not also without any nuance?, you also generalize with your metal statement... Generalizations often just do one thing, they reduce to the minimum, some people nod, others feel insulted, which I understand, but that's what actually each and everyone constantly does.
Watched season one but not two yet so I appreciate you not getting too spoilery. I got so invested in the characters but you’re right it’s really nice how the creator didn’t leave loose ends all over the place.
What a great review of a great show! I may have to renew my membership to Peacock just to watch it again... And thanx Yhara, for the tip on the Indonesian "real lady parts" band too!!!
I had no idea this show used such hyperrealist (?) imagery, like the censoring part. That's really powerful. Will definitely watch this show now. The trailer didn't hook me, but your recommendation did
Thank you for talking about "We are lady parts" despite not knowing how 😄. Seems you knew very well after all! Me and my husband saw the first season when it came out and are hoping to be able to watch the second season soon. We absolutely loved it, and loved all the songs. We're old enough to have lived through the first punk wave and have always had a love for some of the classic punk bands, so that's why we decided to watch it - but we ended up just loving the series for itself. One of the best things about it is that it let the characters be persons instead of representing groups or ideas. They all got to tell their stories. This means that even people like me and my husband, who on the surface have nothing in common with these young women (we're old, we come from families with roots in the place we live since the middle ages, and we are both active Christians to name just a few differences) could find so much to relate to and come out of watching it with new inspiration. This series gave me a lot of hope that maybe things will be different and we will get more stories told in the future, and told in a good way.
i just wanted to thank you for making this video-it introduced me to both the show and your channel! i just finished we are lady parts, and it’s now my favorite show of all time. i’m so, so grateful to have that show in my life. and i’ve just loved your channel in general, too! i first watched this video a while ago, but i had to come back after watching the show itself :)
@ standowner6979 Well they exist so like… yknow, I’m not Muslim but like I’m pretty sure religion is personal and you don’t have to follow it the way that other people do.
@standowner6979 well I can't really control being queer, so what am I supposed to do just give up the religion I was believe in and was born into for something I have no control over?
@RonnieRocket55 who says I'm acting upon them? I just stated that I'm a lesbian and muslim, I never even implied that I act upon any of my queer feelings
It's so cool to see my favourite person on youtube made a video about one of my recent favourite shows! I hope more people get to see this show. and yes. the songs are really THAT good. all bangers
I cant believe ive never heard of this show. I grew up a Black kid in a primarily white punk scene and used to front a band. So the intro to your video instantly caught my attention. This show seems right up my alley, I can't wait to watch this. Amazing video 💛 thanks so much for giving Tina Bell her flowers. She truly seems to go overlooked, even when talking about Black artists. Which is wild bc she literally inspired a whole music genre smdh.
I audibly gasped when you put in clips of Nadia from Élite free my girl her storyline is so dogshit!! they gave her the stupid "dramatically taking off my hijab to signify i'm free" scene THREE TIMES!!! like it was stupid the first time, at least find her one other thing to do!!!! and the degrassi mention
Stopping watching the video at 5:39 because I haven't watched the show yet but Im completely hooked on watching it when I can get access without spoilers!
X-Ray Specs’s song “Identity” just so happens to be one of my favorites, and feels so perfect for this video’s lead in! Also, I teach high school English and one of my favorite units to do is “Persepolis.” I am so excited to now add some episodes of this show to that unit!! What a fantastic video essay-thanks so much for sharing! ❤
I was so surprised to hear Indonesian artists mentioned in this video! But it makes me so proud whenever I see this kind of representation. There are so much amazing talent here and I can only hope in the future more of them can shine too.
I love this show so much! I'm neither Muslim nor Lady, but I could still identify with so many of the characters in little ways here and there. Also, I'm so excited to hear that there was a season 2! I thought it hadn't been renewed. Thanks for being so good at articulating why I love the stuff I love in ways that I am not able to! I love this channel!
Ppl misconstrued bad representation with characters that have flaws. From a narrative angle it makes them flat and one dimensional. I love this show because they feel like people not just idea of what Muslim woman is supposed to be
Omg, somehow I have never heard of that show, but as a fellow former teenage punk of colour, I have to check this out! Thank you so much and great video!
This and Lucretia feel like a hug to the soul. Both of you talking about punk with such joy remind me of Chris Gether talking about punk, and all of you remind me what's beautiful about punk.
i am not muslim, nor a person of colour, but i absolutely loved this show. I'm a goth, and follow punk and socialist views, and i love this show's reminder that "punk is political."
Not only I like watching shows that goes in different ways of the hegemonic mainstream (plenty are very good, but it gets repetitive after a while), this is a well-written show with a subject I like very very much! Thanks for this video! I've been forgetting to watch the 2nd season and this gave me an itch to finally do it
Thank you so much! I've been postponing this show for months and now because of your video I've watched it and after that I watched your video. I'm a non-Muslim, but I live in a Muslim country and this show opened my eyes on many things I didn't even think about before and helped me to connect with my Muslim friends more, thank you!
Thank you for making this video! I was eying the show for some time but was never interested enough... Now I've binged the first season and it's awesome! Shame the episodes are so short, but on the other hand their high quality is a worthy tradeoff. Edit: I've binged both seasons.
I didn't know we are lady parts got a second season until you mentioned it in the video.. BRB need to pause and go rewatch the whole show again first 🫡
Not really related but some dingbat on Threads said like "liked AI art because it was Punk" ...thank you for a video about actual punk...needed a palette cleanser for my brain after that.
I don't normally feel claustrophobia, but that music video where Lady Parts's faces are pressed up against the glass got to me a little. Fully agree with the assessment that Nida Manzoor could make an interesting horror movie.
if someone actually thinks punk rock isnt about politics, have they been listening to the music ?
the phenomenon of bigots being fans of something they should disagree with if they were actually able to engage with its message & the world around them is so fascinating.
but it makes sense when you know they have a lense of bigotry that divides them from reality. bigotry is not based on anything logical, it's something they have to project onto everything/ everyone that then reflects back onto themselves that they then percieve as reality when it's just themselves. bigotry is their own made-up fears, insecurities, etc. they have to exert control in order to assauge these made-up fears, which leads to all these systemic violences.
perhaps it's to cope with the inherent chaos of living, but it's definitely to try to secure a higher point on the current hierarchy we are forced to experience.
rambling but yeah, they cannot engage in the message of anything in a meaningful way, they do not have the skills to desire to have empathy to immerse in a story different from their own. that's also why they express that their values are the most normal & broad experience when it's just their own, pretty much exclusively white, experience that they then project onto things that doesn't always work. i forgot who said it but some conservatives were trying to say star trek wasn't political except for a few episodes maybe lol same with conservatives who show disappointment when rage against the machine expresses progressive ideology lol
@@MossTunicwow, what a cogent explanation 😍!! Is there any way to snap them out of it? Serious question 🙏🏾
@@MossTunicTrue! We saw that with The Boys aswell, Right Wing Ghouls realising that the show is making fun of them lol
@@Pratt11 It couldn’t have been more obvious. 😂 I guess they were just in denial this whole time.
If someone thinks all punk is about politics, have they even explored the genre?
This isn't the point of the show at all but it's so refreshing to see shows about people who 'aren't' teenagers still struggling to find themselves. I feel seen, even as an agnostic.
so so true!!!! makes me bawl like a baby
Completely agree!
what's the point of the show in your opinion? (i haven't watched it yet)
@danishakhairufahima4770 It feels more about watching Muslim women specifically struggling with balancing their personal issues and desires with their faith and love of their faith, but I also haven't seen it yet!!! I'm not muslim, so that's not my specific struggle, but it's close enough for me to still relate to and feel seen by it. Plus, I just love any media put out nowadays that isn't about teens (no offense to teenagers, but they get the lions share of the genres I'm interested in!!!)
@@princessmiaxo it's brilliant, you should watch it. I'm a white woman and I could still relate to all the characters. Plus the balance of comedy and drama is absolutely pitch perfect the whole way through, I can't think of a better example
Punk is inherently political. That is all I have to say about it.
Yeah, but we gotta remember that it's not inherently progressive, let alone inclusive
@@rgorojovskywell said!
@@rgorojovskyyes Punks could be anything from radical anarchists to white nationalist skinheads. But the Hobie Browns(Spiderpunk) of the world are the best of Punks
Love the username lol also love how you explained it !
@@blackflagsnroses6013why are they the best punk?
Something I found cool was that after Saira did the censorship ‘song’ (I won’t mention the wa-) the credits rolled with a song by Palestinian singer, Rasha Nahas. She made an appearance in Momtaz’s studio singing the same song. 🇵🇸
(There was also a cameo by Elaha Soroor, an Afghan singer who was one of the first female singers to publically perform after the fall of the Taliban).
even if these shows have some kind of co operation by streaming platforms with companies that support israel i won't lie that is kind of cool tbh
Thanks for the insight, I figured the censorship could only be about one thing.
I’m so happy you’re talking about this show. It’s so ground breaking and shows Muslim women as normal every day people that any one can relate to. It’s so well filmed, written and acted. Wish it was more popular.
It's sooo funny as well
@@charlottewilliams5601 the comedic timing is spot on. Love how they add the whimsical/fantasy elements to the comedy as well
it's also kind of interesting a show about the same genre which attacked similar immigrant groups like the ones that the women when those immigrant groups came to the uk in the 50s, 60s and 70s
@@ogome2927 When did punk ever attack immigrant groups? Bad Brains is one of the most popular and definitive punk rock groups of all time and they were fronted completely by black people, X-Ray Spex also was fronted by a bi-racial female and Lora Logic who's hindu. The Monochrome Set was fronted by Bid who was indian. Modern Lovers was fronted by Jonathan Richman who was jewish. Raincoats & the Slits were complete female groups, many punk bands also played rock against racism, punk in the early days was used as a conduit for social justice and change, many people who felt like they had nowhere to go no matter what background or race they were felt understood by the punk crowd, the hell are you talking about?
they fr remind me of the muslim girls i knew in high school and uni, it was almost comforting in a way seeing that dynamic on screen
This video made me tear up. I’m not Muslim, but I’m 17, Indian, and queer. I’d say I’m currently in the phase you talked about in the beginning of the video, I love all those classic punk bands and have always felt a longing to see brown women in this space I’m so passionate about. Manzoor’s quote about wanting to be the brown Bob Dylan especially resonated since I think I’ve thought the exact same thing to myself multiple times before. I’d heard of this show in passing but I’m definitely going to watch it now. Anyone who says identity politics have no place in punk can fuck off
If you haven't seen Polite Society yet would also 1000% recommend
i'm sorry but from where i'm from in the uk i associate that type of music and fans instantly with right wing politics mainly due to the fact the punk fans were racist who would normally attack black and indian immigrants, poc punk artist are different as i don't associate them with the yt ones but the yt ones? i'm sorry but i heavily affiliate them with inherent right wing ideologies bc of the fans they tended to attract which caused massive trauma to a generation of immigrants reason why ppl such as my mom who was a child of immigrants couldn't stand them for such a long time.
@@ogome2927I’m from America so my view of them is almost the opposite. I could see a band like the sex pistols attracting a more right-wing crowd but yeah it really is terrible to see people take the anti establishment message of punk to fuel their own shitty ideologies. Especially since imo one of its forefathers (the mc5) was founded on radical leftist ideology and punk (at least to me) continually stands against such conservative ideas. Hope your mother is doing well I know growing up in Britain during that era as an immigrant must have been really shitty. My parents grew up in India so they didn’t deal with that same backlash so there’s less generational trauma when it comes to the genre but I totally understand your view
"We Are Lady Parts" is one of the best shows I've ever seen. I love it so much.
We are lady parts is by far one of my favorite shows. I’m very religious as well (Jewish) and even though the show isn’t about my faith I could definitely relate to all the characters but it was awesome as well to learn about the nuances of and struggles and joys of being a Muslim woman. I particularly liked Ayesha’s arc in season two, I’m always so used to seeing queer stories told through secular or Christian lenses and it was so nice to see someone on screen whose journey so closely mirrors my own. We are lady parts is so amazing, it is a life changing show!!!!!!
Came to say just this. As a non-binary queer and religious Jew, I saw aspects of myself in all the girls and what I didn't relate to, I'm glad I learned. This show has almost a transcendental quality in its depiction of humanity and i love media like that.
I love this comment so much! I'm a muslim and my partner is Jewish. It's so beautiful how much our faith, culture and experiences can mirror each other so deeply. It makes me really happy and proud to see comments like these. Have a good day!
i'm black and lesbian and was raised in a muslim family. i decided to leave the faith because i felt that i couldn't reconcile my queer identity with constantly being told that i'm sinning and i don't belong. i haven't watched this show yet, but just from watching this video, i felt something start to heal in me. i'm so glad a show like this exists. i wish i could have seen it years ago when i needed something like this most, but better late than never.
:0 are you familiar with the book hijabi butch blues? It might be worth checking out!!
i’m sorry that happened my sister. i hope you can find the strength to come back, if that’s what you want 🫶🏻
@@che3rub what does this mean "the strength coming back"? if you get oppressed down by religion or by people who stick to a certain extreme belief system, why should you go back to them, I'd rather say RUN and live your life happily, stand tall.
Hey, I don’t know how far you’ve come since that comment, but just so you know from someone who’s living the same situation, you do belong. No one can tell you otherwise, God has never said to run away from him when you’re afraid, quite the opposite. Wether you consider your situation a sin or not, it’s up to you to live your faith how you feel it. I always remind myself nobody was meant to be perfect and yes it might be demeaning for some people to see it like that but it has helped me cutting some slack. God is the most merciful and I won’t let anyone convince me otherwise. Bless you sister and I hope you find peace.
@@sheswallowsstars-777 notice how i added, “if that’s what you want.” at the end of that sentence. it’s their decision, not mine or your’s.
As a black woman who grew up in Islam and still follows parts of the Hadith to this day, this show sits near and dear to my heart. The liberation🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Love this show so much. “Voldemort’s alive and he’s under my head scarf” still gets me laughing so hard.
If anyone is wondering the show is streaming on Peacock. I stumbled across it randomly, decided to put it on, and ended up binging the entire series in a day and a half. 10/10
i think it should be on all 4 or the channel 4 streaming site for uk ppl i think?
It's also on the channelfour website in the uk for free (With ads though)
@@ogome2927 yes it is!
Hahahah same!! I fell in love since ep 1! I been alt black since middle school, I’m 32 now. This show is amazing and feeds my soul
I am black and Muslim and I felt soooo seen by this show. It really explores the different facets of being a female and Muslim in the west.
I'm muslim too and is this show worth the watch?
season 2 made me cry quite a lot ngl. love how they leaned into the surreal style of the show even more, was very fun to watch!
THERE'S A SECOND SEASON???????
@@lemonline3719 yehh came out a few weeks ago
@@lemonline3719 yeah, i had no idea either until i saw this video. Sometimes it's nice that the algorithm has an idea about what i like even if i haven't watched anything about ladyparts in yt before.
for anyone like me who couldnt quite catch the band name but wanted to find it on spotify, its spelled voice of baceprot. Cant wait to check out the album rec
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This so wild because my friend invited me over tonight to watch Ladyparts.
I have been a "goth" since I was a teenager, but a lot of people have said that when they met me they assumed I was more of a "punk" and I think that's probably due to the fact that I have a definite punk mindset. Similar to the punk genre, goth is very identity-based, but punk has more fire. Punk is incredibly anti-establishment and, like a lot of the things I grew up falling in love with, wildly anti-right wing.
Thank you for sharing your journey into discovering **all** of punk, especially the parts often ignored by most.
that's likely because the goth scene emerged out of the punk scene and retained a lot of the style and ideology of punk (hence post-punk music). there's a huge amount of overlap, and if you look at pictures of early goths, they tend to look much more like our modern idea of what punk looks like. the goth scenes i've been involved in have all been overtly political and anti-establishment in the same way, it's really just a musical, semantic, and stylistic separation. just a lil history i got from some of my goth elders that i thought i'd pass along :)
dude i feel the same about reservation dogs, that show is perfect to me
I love reservation dogs sm
Yes!!
i love this show a lot. I love how season 2 decided to explore more of each band member and not just mainly Amina. Learning each person's relationship with their identity and their role in society was so good.
As a Brown Asian Muslim girl who is very much flawed but still got ambitions to do my own thing one day, I can't explain how much I felt seen through this series. This is one of my favourite series of all time 💙
it's acc a pretty decent show ngl as well better than polite society i feel like i put it on the tier below the bend it like beckham, east is east tier of brown asian movies/tv show category so still a good tier ngl
From Indonesia, and I only aware of We Rae The Lady Parts because it reacted by Voice of Baceprot (VoB), the real women (in hijab) metal band, also mentioned in this video.
Peacock needs to do a better job advertising their shows because I didn't know I need this in my life but I do and I WILL be watching
One of my all-time favorite movie characters now is Hobie from across the spider verse. I love his character design and how it enthralls you so well and like that punk aesthetic without it just being so superficial where he really is an anarchist and political a great example of what punk is about. I love that Daniel Kaluuya voices him. I read somewhere that the directors just told him that they what they wanted the character to be and they told him to just do his thing and he voiced him perfectly.
We are lady parts is so so close my to my heart. Every one in this series is someone I know : my grand parents, my parents, my aunts, my cousins and my friends. Layered, human, flawed and unique. I cried and laughed so many times
I love "We are ladyparts!"
Unfortunately i can not watch this show because the “bad” Muslim narrative tackled with love or passive aggressive is something that gives me a level off dread I’m just not in the mood to unpack but i really love the clip you showed of her not deciding to come out cause it is an important and valuable choice actually not in a pitiful way and the one thing about this show that scared me the most was an outing scene this video is lovely one day i hope to overcome my gripes with religion and watch it but for know im recommending it to everyone
very fair. tbh thats what i first felt when I heard about the show when season one was just airing. watched some of it today while I was still a little scared but it was genuinely so fun! the comedy of it all and the cinematography got me through the "tough" parts. hope you can watch it some time soon ! sending ya all the positive energy in the world 🍀✨🌟
i'm muslim as well and i am in the exact same situation you are in. i feel you
discovered the show last year and have been forcing my friends to watch it too. hands down one of my favourite shows of all time, and fully cried at ayesha's speech in s2 it hit so hard
Thank you so much for sharing this. I didnt even know abt We Are Lady Parts and it makes me happy knowing that there is some more popular media like this exists. Ill definitely have to check it out.
farther in.... I havent even seen this show and this is making me want to cry X3
@@Nilufar_Nasha_Luvs_Catzz this show has been on my list for ages but watching this video i was like,, dude why am i crying haha
im sold. im gonna start the series tonight
Lady parts is full stop my favourite show in the entire world. I get so happy when someone makes a video about it because I was absolutely devastated when I finished it and no longer had content to watch. I absolutely adore the music in it both the original songs and the featured music like Don McLean. Oh my gosh. Just an incredible show.
I loved season 1 of this show but I thought it got canceled. I'm thrilled to hear season 2 is out, I'm def gonna watch it, as soon as my summer classes are finished
When I saw *Polite Society* at the cinema I knew I needed see this series
this series is acc better than polite society imho it has more of a realistic touch and realistic flavour to it which makes me prefer it ngl the ott zaniness of polite society kind of made me put off it tbh and i also think this show balances the female and male south asian groups instead of what i felt put one above the other as well
Tina Bell is ICONIC! She absolutely made that scene and she was cut right out of it.
Tina Bell was either too early or too late. Subgenres are cyclical, and Bam Bam suffered for not being enough like the flavor of the era. They would have been huge if they'd moved to the UK. She should be a household name.
@@mperezmcfinn2511 She was doing grunge in 1983, they came way too early, and influenced many of the bands who would go on to be grunge superstars. I'm surprised she hasn't gotten a doc on her yet
@kelechi_77 Bam Bam had a similar sound to Soundgarden at that time and even shared a drummer. It was a very English post-punk sound with a hint of metal. And, like Soundgarden, they were heavily influenced by Killing Joke.
Sometime around 85-86, the early Black Sabbath sound became the dominant ingredient in early grunge, while the very 80s English post punk elements were widely abandoned in favor of late 60s/early 70s aesthetics.
Bam Bam probably would have been huge had they stayed together and either adopted a heavier, more early 70s stoner rock sound (like Soundgarden, Nirvana, etc did) or evolved a more non-synth based heavy Chicago sound (like Jesus Lizard). Either way, they would have been huge if they had moved to England.
The tour of Mumtaz's studio made me want to cry just seeing such sisterhood and support in one place and sent me down a rabbit hole finding all the songs
The censorship episode was so good. The fourth wall shatters in such a horriyingly beautiful way
The final scene of the penultimate episode of season two features the greatest fourth wall break I have ever seen.
When the show itself literally begins to censor Saira as she tries to express her outrage regarding specific ongoing atrocities in our world today, I could not believe my eyes.
I could hardly process what I was feeling.
It is such a genius and heartfelt expression, directly from the creators of the show about the very limitations of corporate funded art simultaneously in and out of universe.
Never have I ever seen anything like it and I don’t believe I’ll ever see anything come close to this level of effectiveness again regarding breaking the fourth wall to make a point directly to the audience.
I'd only seen mini previews of the show before and didn't think it'd be more than a surface-level comedy- but this video has made me DESPERATE to watch it. Schedule cleared, binging tomorrow!
No way!! I'm so excited for this, I think I even suggested your thoughts on Muslim women in media as a video topic on patreon. No idea if that was where you got the idea from but I can't wait to watch it when I finish making dinner.
One thing I am always weirded out by in Western media involving Muslims is how its only conception of being a Muslim is being a devout Muslim in some way. Born and raised in a “Muslim” country to a “lower class”, emigrant Muslim family i have rarely if ever interacted with practising let alone devout folk, it is the exception. Even among conservative circles it is the minority. Which wouldn’t be weird if we were talking about a predominantly Christian, Western society but even non-Muslim immigrants who lived here for years are confused by it as if it was some impossible oddity. If people instead weren’t knobbers like that they’d perhaps understand that the religion itself is just a component part of Islam as a sociocultural phenomenon (that interacts with culture racialisation language etc) and free themselves from the weird bollocks idea that being a Muslim punk rock musician is impossible because punk is anti-religious/establishment. There’s more that can be talked about on that last point but the true thorn in my side is this very annoying double standard. And then you’d imagine they’d spare us non-religious folk of Muslim background the islamophobia at least but that’s not happening either. Which is ofc because Islam is primarily an ethno-racial category, rather than merely religion… of which devotion, orientalist preconceptions, anti-Arab/SWANA stereotypes are among central features… Anyways, this is a ramble but I don’t feel like devoting 😜 the time it takes to write a critical essay to writing a youtube comment. Who experiences it knows it.
Sounds like the -muslim- brown guy version of Mindy Kailing
I don't know how I feel about this show tbh with you. I don't think it paints an entirely truthful picture of how muslim women struggle with observing the faith and expressing themselves. As someone who grew up muslim up I don't think it was stereotypes that stifled my expression and how I saw myself it was like literal scripture?
i think it can be both. i'm a queer person who was raised as a girl in a muslim family and i struggled throughout my life bc of religious trauma AND islamophobia. like my parents were awful but i also couldn't access help bc adults were like "oh that's what your people are like" and would dehumanize us both. i have some friends who are converts and i think they have a more nuanced and healthier vision of islam than the one i was raised with
i also think scripture has been interpreted in an increasingly conservative way for a long time, i don't think the spirit of the religion relies on following every rule or being exclusionary. i'm rambling, i hope this makes sense
I think it varies. I’m a Muslim women, I grew up with very loving and supporting parents. The islamaphobia we received in our shabby southern town was insane.
Really sick breakdown. When this came out I was hooked, it's a shame a lot of my mates here in England don't think it'd be for them, coz as a white, Christian born transdude I still resonate and enjoy the storylines in We Are Lady Parts coz it's well funny and cool in its art style. It's so cool that this show reached yall in America!
I don't know how I missed this one, this show seems right up my alley for so many reasons.
thank u so much for sharing this show w us... depictions of muslima's different relationships w islam are always dear to me as someone who is still figuring it out !!!
yet another yhara zayd banger!
when does she ever miss tho that's the question lol!
This is wild. I was binging S2 just now! I love this show so much. Bashir with the good beard is my fave
Me too, he's SO pretty, lol 😂
Edit: actually, Voldemort Under My Headscarf is my favorite. I just can't read or hear "Bashir with the good beard" without finishing the whole chorus!! You can say you think I'm weird all you want 🤣🤙🏾💕
Fish and Chips is an underrated classic. It's literally two fingers up someone's nose
i love this show sm. even tho i'm from Latin America, Argentina, i can relate to these girls & see a little bit of myself in each and one of them.
when i was a teen, punk music was my life, it shaped & changed me in so many ways, made me feel less alone & i've always dreamed about having my own punk band.
i'll be 30 soon, but this wasn't a phase, i still listen to it on a daily basis, i just don't dress the same lol. that shows you that punk is so much more than that. THANK YOU FOR YOUR WONDERFUL VIDEO 🤍🤘🏼
My sister got discounted student rate Peacock and… well you just made a really solid case for me.
I’m neither Muslim nor black, but your video last year about _Polite Society_ made me check out the first season of this show and I loved every minute of it! Great music, great writing. I was so happy to hear season 2 was coming soon - I honestly thought it was canceled
Your love for this show is infectious. I'm going to stream it this weekend!
did i just spoil the whole show for myself: yes
am i gonna watch it anyway: ofc
Your videos have shown me so much over the years. Like many fans of creativity, I am starved for new images, new narratives, and new perspectives that surprise the world.
Yhara, thank you for telling me that season 2 came out. I had to immediately stop watching this video to go sign up and binge season 2. It's such a good show! The writing, the cast and characterization, the songs, all absolutely brilliant!
Latinas in punk have been ignored up to this day. Alice Bag of The Bags is probably one of the most influential I can think of. In Mexico Julieta Venegas of the band Tinjuana No! is also a pioneer.
I always tell folks who complain about music that the good stuff won’t come to them. They need to get off their behinds and search for it themselves.
The discussion of white saviourist Islamophobia and the punk/alt scene reminds me of the MASSIVE Islamophobia in the metal scene. If it's not outright racism, it's this white saviour, "oppressed Musilm girl saved by Western Values or murdered by Islam" theme that saturates the entire scene ( -cough- -cough- Epica -cough- -cough- After Forever). There's like, no nuance.
no shit, Islam is inherently right wing. I can't believe people wanna paint Islam as a feminist punk ideology when its no different from christianity.
and of course, wearing a hijab a symbol of female oppression is so punk
@@himalayansalt32...Your point being...?
it's not like punk and ult are so kind to Christians either .... i think it has more to do with the anti theist anti establishment nature of these communities , they were a rising against societal norms and a direct demonstration against purity culture and religious dominance
isn't what you are doing not also without any nuance?, you also generalize with your metal statement... Generalizations often just do one thing, they reduce to the minimum, some people nod, others feel insulted, which I understand, but that's what actually each and everyone constantly does.
Watched season one but not two yet so I appreciate you not getting too spoilery. I got so invested in the characters but you’re right it’s really nice how the creator didn’t leave loose ends all over the place.
What a great review of a great show! I may have to renew my membership to Peacock just to watch it again...
And thanx Yhara, for the tip on the Indonesian "real lady parts" band too!!!
I literally used a VPN and all kinds of other nonsense just to finish and support the show from Canada (I started it on an American Airlines flight)
I LOVE this show. On top of all the amazing, important, and heart-warming stuff it is also genuinely laugh-out-loud funny
SCREAMINGGGG FCKN LOVE THIS SHOW
X-ray spex AND Death? Phenomenal taste
Ps. Theirs a punk band called Dead Pioneers. Apart from having a great name they make some damn good music.
your love for this show is infectious. If I were the show writer, this would be the best compliment I could ever receive.
I've never heard of this show, but I'm so glad you covered it! As a Muslim woman and a lover of the genre, I'm so excited to see it
I had no idea this show used such hyperrealist (?) imagery, like the censoring part. That's really powerful. Will definitely watch this show now. The trailer didn't hook me, but your recommendation did
Thank you for talking about "We are lady parts" despite not knowing how 😄. Seems you knew very well after all! Me and my husband saw the first season when it came out and are hoping to be able to watch the second season soon. We absolutely loved it, and loved all the songs. We're old enough to have lived through the first punk wave and have always had a love for some of the classic punk bands, so that's why we decided to watch it - but we ended up just loving the series for itself. One of the best things about it is that it let the characters be persons instead of representing groups or ideas. They all got to tell their stories. This means that even people like me and my husband, who on the surface have nothing in common with these young women (we're old, we come from families with roots in the place we live since the middle ages, and we are both active Christians to name just a few differences) could find so much to relate to and come out of watching it with new inspiration. This series gave me a lot of hope that maybe things will be different and we will get more stories told in the future, and told in a good way.
i just wanted to thank you for making this video-it introduced me to both the show and your channel!
i just finished we are lady parts, and it’s now my favorite show of all time. i’m so, so grateful to have that show in my life.
and i’ve just loved your channel in general, too!
i first watched this video a while ago, but i had to come back after watching the show itself :)
Thank you for introducing me to this series. Season one made me laugh and season one made me cry and I hope we get more to come just as excellent
a lady parts yhara zayd video??? my luck 😭 i just finished watching this a week or 2 ago. it's fantastic 🎸🎶
As a queer hijabi I'm stoaked to watch this
I stayed ten minutes trying to understand your comment. Are you Muslim and queer? Because that's not allowed (last time I checked)
@ standowner6979
Well they exist so like… yknow, I’m not Muslim but like I’m pretty sure religion is personal and you don’t have to follow it the way that other people do.
@standowner6979 well I can't really control being queer, so what am I supposed to do just give up the religion I was believe in and was born into for something I have no control over?
@@olayceesay20it’s a test, you shouldn’t give in in your feelings. you can’t do anything about the feelings but you shouldn’t act upon them
@RonnieRocket55 who says I'm acting upon them? I just stated that I'm a lesbian and muslim, I never even implied that I act upon any of my queer feelings
It's so cool to see my favourite person on youtube made a video about one of my recent favourite shows! I hope more people get to see this show. and yes. the songs are really THAT good. all bangers
I cant believe ive never heard of this show. I grew up a Black kid in a primarily white punk scene and used to front a band. So the intro to your video instantly caught my attention. This show seems right up my alley, I can't wait to watch this.
Amazing video 💛 thanks so much for giving Tina Bell her flowers. She truly seems to go overlooked, even when talking about Black artists. Which is wild bc she literally inspired a whole music genre smdh.
I audibly gasped when you put in clips of Nadia from Élite free my girl her storyline is so dogshit!! they gave her the stupid "dramatically taking off my hijab to signify i'm free" scene THREE TIMES!!! like it was stupid the first time, at least find her one other thing to do!!!! and the degrassi mention
Ahhh I’m so glad this show is getting more coverage!
I am so happy you let me know about this show. Sounds awesome, I will watch! Thank you
Stopping watching the video at 5:39 because I haven't watched the show yet but Im completely hooked on watching it when I can get access without spoilers!
oh my god I can't believe this is how I'm finding out it got a second season how did I miss this? This is amazing aaaaaaaaaaaa
X-Ray Specs’s song “Identity” just so happens to be one of my favorites, and feels so perfect for this video’s lead in!
Also, I teach high school English and one of my favorite units to do is “Persepolis.” I am so excited to now add some episodes of this show to that unit!! What a fantastic video essay-thanks so much for sharing! ❤
finally finally finished watching the show 10 seconds ago and i'm so excited to be able to watch this video now lol
this is my fav show of all time
I was so surprised to hear Indonesian artists mentioned in this video! But it makes me so proud whenever I see this kind of representation. There are so much amazing talent here and I can only hope in the future more of them can shine too.
I love this show so much! I'm neither Muslim nor Lady, but I could still identify with so many of the characters in little ways here and there. Also, I'm so excited to hear that there was a season 2! I thought it hadn't been renewed.
Thanks for being so good at articulating why I love the stuff I love in ways that I am not able to! I love this channel!
Hey, VoB mentioned!! Just discovered them recently. I'll have to check out this show.
Ppl misconstrued bad representation with characters that have flaws. From a narrative angle it makes them flat and one dimensional. I love this show because they feel like people not just idea of what Muslim woman is supposed to be
bro x-rey specs was what I was RAISED ON!! So glad to see her being mentioned
Omg, somehow I have never heard of that show, but as a fellow former teenage punk of colour, I have to check this out! Thank you so much and great video!
This and Lucretia feel like a hug to the soul. Both of you talking about punk with such joy remind me of Chris Gether talking about punk, and all of you remind me what's beautiful about punk.
yes!!!! a video about my favorite show that it feels like 3 people total are watching!!!!
this video came out at the perfect time because i recently got recommended a morrocan punk band led by a niqabi called taqbir
i am not muslim, nor a person of colour, but i absolutely loved this show. I'm a goth, and follow punk and socialist views, and i love this show's reminder that "punk is political."
Literally been screaming about this show for too long to anyone with ears around me luv luv luv !!!
Also my mom is a big big fan, not the focus but I really appreciate the ‘adults’ in the show too, intergenerationally phenomenal show
Not only I like watching shows that goes in different ways of the hegemonic mainstream (plenty are very good, but it gets repetitive after a while), this is a well-written show with a subject I like very very much!
Thanks for this video! I've been forgetting to watch the 2nd season and this gave me an itch to finally do it
Thank you so much! I've been postponing this show for months and now because of your video I've watched it and after that I watched your video. I'm a non-Muslim, but I live in a Muslim country and this show opened my eyes on many things I didn't even think about before and helped me to connect with my Muslim friends more, thank you!
This show is coming to YLE Areena (the Finnish public broadcasting network streaming service) in two weeks and I'm so excited
Thank you for making this video! I was eying the show for some time but was never interested enough... Now I've binged the first season and it's awesome! Shame the episodes are so short, but on the other hand their high quality is a worthy tradeoff.
Edit: I've binged both seasons.
I didn't know we are lady parts got a second season until you mentioned it in the video.. BRB need to pause and go rewatch the whole show again first 🫡
Fun fact : here in Indonesia, we have Voice of Baceprot, all-Muslim female rock/metal band. And they wear hijab.
Not really related but some dingbat on Threads said like "liked AI art because it was Punk" ...thank you for a video about actual punk...needed a palette cleanser for my brain after that.
I don't normally feel claustrophobia, but that music video where Lady Parts's faces are pressed up against the glass got to me a little. Fully agree with the assessment that Nida Manzoor could make an interesting horror movie.
Punk and hardcore is having a big increase in diverse bands making some of the hardest shit ever
I don't know how you convince me to engage with obscure media, like you do. But I love it, and thank you.
oooh I'm so excited. I love We are ladyparts - such a great show though was tough to watch with my emetaphobia
Comment for the 'rithm. Pausing mid-video because the summary alone is getting good, and I wanna try to watch this show before I spoil myself.