Maria Qamar, otherwise known as Hatecopy (@Hatecopy), is an artist living in Toronto. She was raised a first generation Canadian in a traditional South Asian home where a job in the arts was typically looked down upon as an "unstable career path." Soon after realizing there was no other option, she fought to pursue the arts anyway and started her Instagram account Hatecopy in February 2015, illustrating the hilarious insights of diaspora culture and the significance of aunties in Indian culture. Trust No Aunty is her first book.
"If you think the new wave of South Asian humor is led by men--from
The Big Sick's Kumail Nanjiani to Master of None's Aziz Ansari to
No Man's Land's Aasif Mandvi--it's time to reckon with women like
Qamar. With Trust No Aunty, her new book of Pop Art and satire, the
26-year-old Pakistani Canadian brings the experience of desi girls
into the comedy limelight." -- "NPR"
"Everyone has an overbearing aunty! Qamar's first book is where
memoir and comic book and brownness meet, with advice on how to
handle pushy aunties as well as recipes and stories about dating
and racism. Qamar also illustrated the book with her
Lichtenstein-esque feisty Indian women reminding you to get married
or call home or not to "fall in love with another nikamma." --New
York
"Maria Qamar's art is gorgeous and witty, with defiance seeping
through the edges. Everything I want to be! I am a big fan." --
Mindy Kaling
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