I want to talk about ji’had (struggle), and I want to talk about it at its most basic elementary level to demonstrate how it relates to social justice, and, is essentially, at the core of striving toward it. And I want to do this by considering the configuration of human beings. God began the creation …
Continue reading Appreciating Social Justice from the Unseen
An instructor in New Jersey threatens a student, who records in on camera. Watch the video here, embedded at the top of the article. Trigger warning. Serious trigger warning. The student makes a simple request, and his voice is calm and polite throughout the entire video. The instructor, whose voice rises to dangerous levels, looks …
I neglected to post a photo of my nail polish when I was on my period last month, but I found this on my phone: A little bit of green. =) That was last month. I'm wearing a much darker green this month. A little garish because of the green is blue-based, but it's a …
When she had delivered, she said: “O my Lord! Behold! I am delivered of a female child!” —and God knew best what she delivered— “And no wise is the male like the female. I have named her Maryam (Mary), and I commend her and her offspring to Thy protection from the Evil One, the Rejected.” …
With the expansion of Islam and the strife for political power, the Islamic empires merged with the highly patriarchal, highly oppressive societies they conquered, leading to the adoption of widespread traditions such as veiling and seclusion. By the Abbasid era, Muslim women predominantly occupied a private sphere—a stark contrast to their freedoms and very public …
Continue reading Islamic History and the Women You Never Hear About: Umm al Muqtadir-Billah
After having grudgingly come to terms with the fact that I’m a bit of a romantic, I found myself wondering why I had ever denied it. My first explanation was internalized misogyny—after all, the romantic, even when characterized with inextravagance and realism, is assigned by modern patriarchy as an attribute of femininity—and, finding the idea …
I have not been able to contribute as frequently to this site. This is because I spent many hours this past week thinking about writing the short story I was assigned for class. In fact, I spent so much time thinking about writing it that I may have forgotten the due date was approaching. I …
the fatal feminist 