On Celebrating Over 2k Subscribers!!
A moment for a smol (but not so smol) win!!!! P.S open for gift.
Some housekeeping:
I’m looking for some more freelance gigs. Reply to this email and hit me up. Can be across anything from editorial, copywriting/editing to marketing and social media.
Also, I feel like I’d be great at writing TV shows. Myself and a loved one are trying to get into a Writer’s Room this year inshallah. Any producers, film makers on here that I know of?
If I don’t get to say it before — early Eid Mubarak :)
Last week, The Aram newsletter hit over 2000 subscribers! Alhamdullilah!!
The story goes that I was at the gym (heading to the sauna iykyk) and searching for something in the backend of my Substack and realised I had achieved a small win that had been in the back of my mind for some time now.
But it’s not small, is it? As someone who is perpetually thinking of the future and when achieves anything, is ready for the next thing and then the next, I think it’s important to recognise a reality that was once prayed for. And just take a moment, to say thank you.
A gal-dem talk on mentorship
Thank you for the supportive comments, the readers, the other writers on and off of Substack and anyone who has ever recommended The Aram. It is also a thank you to myself for having the discipline to sit and write the newsletter, no matter where I am in the world, most weeks, since March 2020.
Polaroids from The Aram Live in collaboration with Selina hotels
Reading this newsletter aloud for International Women’s Day event
The Aram has allowed me to speak across panels, chair topics, put on immersive events, chit chat on podcasts, raise over a grand for an assortment of charities and be a space for honesty and rest. For myself and everyone I write this love letter to.
“South Asian women Shanti & Joy” event for WAITS, a charity supporting women enduring domestic violence
Newsletters are not respectfully not necessarily the same as followers on social media or a channel that requires less attention. Newsletters like any other form of writing, require a person’s full attention and reading can sometimes, in all honesty, be work. So I am honoured, always, that you sit and take the time to read my words.
As a thank you, I am giving 50% of all annual subscriptions for the next week. What’s usually £5 a month and £60 annually is £25 for a limited amount of time. But most imporantly, thank you for just being here. You make the child within feel listened to.
With gratitude, appreciation & inspiration,
Tahmina
Hola! I'm Tahmina Begum 👋🏾 I'm a writer and creator of The Aram newsletter
CONGRATULATIONS!!! so so well deserved 🫶🏽🫂