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‘We Are Lady Parts’ Creator Nida Manzoor Explored the Gray Areas in Season 2
“I didn’t want to give the audience the answer because I don’t have it.”
After Ph.D. student Amina (Anjana Vasan) spends the season torn between her self-imposed modesty and her desire to be lead guitarist of punk band Lady Parts, finale “Sparta” delivers delightful wish fulfillment: Amina joins Lady Parts members Saira (Sarah Kameela Impey), Ayesha (Juliette Motamed), Bisma (Faith Omole), and honorary fifth member and manager Momtaz (Lucie Shorthouse) onstage at a DIY show, and the group of female Muslim punks revels in their friendship and slight fame. But the season also interrupts Lady Parts’s upward trajectory with the big question that also hung over The Runaways, Rap Sh!t, Glitter, Girls5eva, and so many other stories about female musicians trying to make it in the music industry: Can they retain their individuality, or is selling out inevitable? Makrooh is a concept in Islamic law that categorizes actions as not expressly prohibited, like “haram,” but also not clearly permitted, like “halal.” It’s a middle ground of dislike and disapproval but not total taboo.
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