The radical notion that women are people.
no true scotsman 1.1 this cannot be a true Muslim true Muslims are terrorists at a fundamental(ist) level friendly feminist fire: you cannot be a true religious woman; religion is anti-feminist and what you practice is not bandwagon 2.1 a man of color accuses a woman of racism for rejecting his advances because white men …
Continue reading a lesson in logical fallacies, to my critical thinking instructors
In Texas, a 16-year-old girl sued her parents who were pressuring her to abort her pregnancy. She won her case. While the pressure itself is not illegal (and shouldn't be, even though it sucks), some of the extreme methods of coercion on which the parents unfortunately relied definitely should be illegal, because these are consistent …
Continue reading Girl Sues Her Parents for the Right to Carry a Pregnancy to Term
I wasn't, until rather recently, one to suggest / wonder if religion is the only way to decipher between what is moral and what is immoral. Though upon receiving inquiries as to whether I believed someone could be a moral person without religion my answer had consistently been yes, admittedly what I truly felt was …
Admittedly, even as a Western woman, I still grapple with the role of nudity in the feminist movement--the only real incorporation of it that I understood entirely had been the Slutwalks, and that is because the message wasn't, "I am free to be sexy!" but, "You can't rape me if I am, and you can't …
Continue reading Why Nudity Doesn’t Work (for Islamic Feminism)
Dear readers, there are few "Islamic" [?!] practices that I reject entirely (actually I can only think of this one), but if I were to toss out any--any at all--it would be the practice of "giving away" the bride. Fuck that noise, seriously. This is one of those things that is mandated nowhere in the …
Continue reading And the Patriarchy Lunges: the Purpose of the Wali
Your wonderful messages seem to have gotten some attention--if you remember from this post, the mosque in my area is in the middle of a (very long) reconstruction process, and recently they've announced that they were going to "fix something" about the discrepancy in the space allotted to women compared to men, because there have …
Sometimes when my hair is undone it looks something like this: Except it still grows down, not up, and the result is a "nightmare." To come across it in professional photography, even if it is just to showcase a hair salon, is such a funny feeling.
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