It’s been a week and as it turns out, I do have to remove the top double helix piercings—the two crescent moons. “Do I really have to take out the ring?” I asked sadly. “I don’t want to sound dramatic,” said the piercer. “But it just doesn’t look healthy.” This was a gentle way of …
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The Meaning of Love
I'm so unimpressed with people who appropriate claiming they "love the culture"—do you think I'm not in love with dreamcatchers and afros? I manage to control myself, because there is this thing, that comes with love, called respect. And it involves appreciating that attributes and artifacts you "love" have a history, a deep meaningfulness for …
4:25 [muḥ’ṣanāti]: Consent is Integral to the Qur’an
When I was writing my exegesis, “Polygamy is haraam.” I remembered a conversation I had with Orbala ages ago in which I had demanded to know why the supposed permissibility of polygyny did not conventionally extend to polyandry. She responded that polyandry, the marriage of one woman to multiple men, was explicitly forbidden in the …
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Severing a population from its allies and support network is abuse.
There are Muslim men who say things like "only Muslims should be able to comment on sexual assault in the Muslim community" WHILE NOT BEING WOMEN. You're seriously not registering that you're asking people of an outside demographic to stop, while being part of an outside demographic? You don't get to choose our allies for …
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Kiss
I just remembered I'm so extra that one time I accidentally knocked my phone into my headboard and then kissed the phone to "repair" the damage. At least something is knocking into my headboard.
Moon Visitors
I have not made any serious attempts to visit the moon, yet somehow yesterday when I encountered an ad that started, “You may never visit the moon, but...” I was like HOW DARE YOU. In all seriousness, the very gentle and kind friends I have are enough to send me into space. I noticed a …
Diaspora Romanticizing Discarded Patriarchal Traditions
Speaking of piercings, my mother informed me recently that in our culture, women used to wear the noluk (septum piercing) to indicate that they were newly married. If the women weren’t already pierced, the bridal party would puncture the ring through the septum on the very day of the ceremony. Septum rings have never appealed …
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the fatal feminist 