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Introducing GIN & Lime

“We provide a judgementfree place to be your queer South Asian self”

In the early 2000s I wrote my DClinPsy thesis on the role of community shame (“sharam”) and “family honour” (“izzat”) on suicidal behaviour in young South Asian (SA) women. Research

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