This email has been brought to you by questions from straight people like yours truly. To "fellow allies" or whatever, I don't know whether I'm an LGBT ally. I don't talk about how much of an ally I am or about being an ally. That is because the decision is not mine. My intention is …
Continue reading LGBT people get to decide whether you are their ally; you don’t.
There is one. It's a crisis by which I am decidedly unaffected. I will be graduating this spring with a B.A. and zero debt. I chose my university according to my budget. I won't be paying my own (nonexistent) student debt, but with taxes, I will probably be paying yours. Irrespective of that, and despite …
Islam, thankfully, rejects the belief in Original Sin (17:15), and in fact anyone disabled of full mental capacity also loses the ability to sin, until (and unless) that capacity is restored--that includes children before reaching an age of understanding and, less often mentioned, the dreamer before waking. I was taught this as I grew up, …
A few months ago a very, very good friend of mine, at the prospect of having a Mormon for president, revealed a sentiment along the lines of, "I know it doesn't matter to you, Nahida, but it feels kind of sad and strange not to have a president who's not your religion for the first …
Is it already? I meant to write something. (I actually meant to write quite a lot.) But--well, it didn't happen. So here are a number of updates. About halfway through the semester, a woman in one of my English classes had expressed dissatisfaction that she wasn’t able to read a lot of the “classics” she …
Nahida does, in fact, return.
I will never defend, accept, or fail to denounce a depiction of the Prophet by a Westerner, regardless of their excuse, progressive or offensive. Depicting the Prophet is an injustice, and it is an injustice because the West has a habit of ignoring the copyright-by-virtue-of-existing laws, those which it conveniently affords itself, when regarding the …
the fatal feminist 