When confronted with criticism from immigrants, white Americans will often nonsensically retort, "If you hate America so much, go back to where you came from!" with the intention of forcing an admission that the place in question is worse. But what they neglect, as expected, is to apply that segregative logic evenly: I might not …
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The radical notion that women are people.
Prophet Maryam and Her Successor, the Prophet Muhammad
Although I've already written about Maryam as our Prophetess, I'd like to expand on her significance by comparing the cosmological role of our Prophet Muhammad to that of our Prophetess Maryam. There are several interesting parallels between Maryam and Muhammad; the first and most obvious is not only that both recieved word from the Archangel …
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Men Need to Learn to Read Nonverbal Cues
This post is actually a primer to another post I’ll get around to writing sometime, in which I make the argument that that there are racial and sexual implications in men (physically or otherwise) attacking women’s hair. In this particular post there are two themes: the importance of reading nonverbal cues (which is incidental) and …
It’s the 2nd day of Ramadan and my fast has already been interrupted for the next 7 days.
Since it's been a while since I've written here, I'll remind everyone asking What is the meaning of this!, that according to mainstream interpretation women should avoid applying nail polish because it acts as a barrier (we're suddenly against barriers now) between the water during wudu--ritual purification before prayer--and the surface of the nail. However, …
“When are you getting married?” or, Why We Need Married Heroines
While I was East Coasting it recently, the 10-year-old daughter of one of my friends dashed through the door of my hotel room and flipped herself onto the bed. “Where have you BEEN?” Everywhere. The answer was everywhere. But seeing as I don’t live anywhere near her, it was a peculiar question. I ran my …
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Critique and Complacency in Examining Gender as a Performance
A couple of years ago, photographs of men in stereotypical 'pin-up' poses circulated the Internet. The photographs, featuring men accessorized with 'masculine' items but contorted in 'feminine' poses, are by artist Rion Sabean, and I encountered them rather early on in the feminist blogosphere. The general consensus by feminist commentators was that they were exceptional--an …
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Stop Talking about Drones
This is going to be a quick post, and it's prompted by various Muslims--and naturally, they've pretty much all been men trying to "put things in perspective"--detracting from the tragedy of the Nigerian girls who've been kidnapped, raped, and sold into slavery by competing with the attention the kidnapping is receiving, via lists of various …
the fatal feminist 