If it isn’t clear already, I am not a hijabi. But while other young Muslim women would express disapproval (in a not-so-keen patriarchal tactic of pitting women against each other) at the trope of the hijabi who goes clubbing with her friends and wears vivid makeup while simultaneously donning a “modest” persona, I would almost …
Author: TFF
IKEA’s Literal Erasure of Women
The catalogue photo to the left was released in Sweden; the one to the right was released in Saudi. To the right, the woman has conspicuously vanished from the photo. While I don’t deny that this is indicative of Saudi’s approach to sexual equality--and a degree of very poignant and disturbed reactions followed after I …
pretty pt 1
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“The Myth of Forgiveness” by Sarah
I really really love Sarah's new blog, and this is a post that resonates with me and feels so comforting and relieving. Excerpt, Would I ever tell a person who has been through a certain trauma at the hands of another that they need to forgive that person? No, I would never do that. Forgiveness …
Libya what are you doing!
First of all the Coptic Egyptian who made the film (it wasn’t even an American) has the right to make it and everyone needs to chill out. Second, I find it fascinating and outrageous that not only is the film being positioned as a cause of the riots by the group who were responsible for …
Pamela Hall Should be Arrested for Assault (And Why She Wasn’t)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0jSSLleGiY The woman in this video is Mona Eltahawy. She is vandalizing an ad. The woman who runs up to the poster with a camera and assaults her is Pamela Hall. [I placed the ad Eltahawy was vandalizing here but have removed it because frankly I don't feel like looking at it. I'm sure you …
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Things I Would Never Do to Children
When I was 4 years old I was being babysat by a lady who I am sure was a very well meaning adult. Sometime in the afternoon, however, I decided I wanted ice cream, and thus began one of the most infuriating exchanges of my 4 years of life. “There is ice cream in my …
the fatal feminist 