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    Zaida Ibrahim on how a mother’s love transcends blood and labels

    Zaida Ibrahim entered motherhood as the mum to 7-year-old Adam. Now that she is a mother of two, she is discovering how a woman’s capacity to love is not constrained to labels. Due to COVID-19, our initial shoot with Zaida had to be postponed and eventually cancelled. However, in the spirit of Mother’s Day, we didn’t want to bury her story, which is one of the most beautiful tales of acceptance and true love that we’ve had the chance to witness, so we asked that her husband Arif Azizi be the photographer. All images in this story are taken through…