Muslim on her own terms: the subversiveness of After Love

Joanna Scanlan’s character in After Love isn’t a fantasy Muslim made for the white imagination. She is mundane and complex and imperfect. Ahead of this year’s BAFTAs, poet Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan applauds a subversively individual protagonist.

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