Dear readers, there are few "Islamic" [?!] practices that I reject entirely (actually I can only think of this one), but if I were to toss out any--any at all--it would be the practice of "giving away" the bride. Fuck that noise, seriously. This is one of those things that is mandated nowhere in the …
Continue reading And the Patriarchy Lunges: the Purpose of the Wali
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Your wonderful messages seem to have gotten some attention--if you remember from this post, the mosque in my area is in the middle of a (very long) reconstruction process, and recently they've announced that they were going to "fix something" about the discrepancy in the space allotted to women compared to men, because there have …
Sometimes when my hair is undone it looks something like this: Except it still grows down, not up, and the result is a "nightmare." To come across it in professional photography, even if it is just to showcase a hair salon, is such a funny feeling.
The very earliest of the Umayyads did not keep harems of jawari (or slave women, if I can translate roughly for a moment), but instead a woman’s power was rightfully her own, and her nobility was measured by her defiance. Among the women who demonstrate this are Sakina bint al-Hussain and A’isha bint Talha, both …
Continue reading Islamic History and the Women You Never Hear About: Zaat al-Khaal
to be back.
Incorporated into the recent war on women is the acknowledgement that women of color, expressly black women, have been sterilized against their will and made to struggle for their reproductive right to produce a family. There have also been—and are—imperialistic efforts to constrain and control the populations of developing countries through untested and dangerous drugs. …
Continue reading Why Anti-Choice is Pro-Genocide, and Uncomfortable Things about Birth Control
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