In case anyone's wondering (and for anyone who misses me) I tweet in two places: @haraammermaids (associated with this website) and also here (personal, goes in and out of being private) Any other twitter handle that resembles me--isn't. (Also, I made a thing.) P.S. I am likely to write my MFA thesis on feminist interpretations …
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Why exactly I’m so outraged and you should be too
Zimmerman was acquitted because he couldn't be convicted beyond reasonable doubt. This means even if you believe a defendant is guilty, if there is not enough evidence, you must return to a verdict of not guilty. Except that, oddly, Zimmerman wasn't the one on trial; Trayvon was. The only absolutely undeniable fact in this case …
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America’s message
You have no right to stand your ground. Allow yourself to be followed and profiled silently. Do not defend yourself. A fist to the nose is aggression, not defense, even if you are followed. Everything about you is wrong. You will be legally shot for retaliation. Unlike you, the man who shoots you will have …
Control your little mansplainers when they’re little.
When I was four years old, a five-year-old boy chased me around the masjid because I refused to take off my shoes. For those of you who don't know, everyone is expected to remove their shoes prior to entering the prayer area. I did not remove my shoes because I was waiting for my mother …
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Spheres of Literature: Africa
I hate Things Fall Apart. If Chinua Achebe's objective in writing the atrocious novel had been to restore the dignity stripped away by Joseph Conrad's more atrocious book Heart of Darkness, then Achebe accomplished restoring dignity to only the African man. The women in Things Fall Apart are not merely invisible, they are belittled in …
Spheres of Literature series
Some of you may have noticed that I haven't been writing as frequently about Islam as of late. This is because I am working on a project that consumes all of my Islam-writing time. However, it's centered around a specific realm, so I will still be writing little pieces on Islam in other areas. As …
the fatal feminist 