The radical notion that women are people.
The very earliest of the Umayyads did not keep harems of jawari (or slave women, if I can translate roughly for a moment), but instead a woman’s power was rightfully her own, and her nobility was measured by her defiance. Among the women who demonstrate this are Sakina bint al-Hussain and A’isha bint Talha, both …
Continue reading Islamic History and the Women You Never Hear About: Zaat al-Khaal
Incorporated into the recent war on women is the acknowledgement that women of color, expressly black women, have been sterilized against their will and made to struggle for their reproductive right to produce a family. There have also been—and are—imperialistic efforts to constrain and control the populations of developing countries through untested and dangerous drugs. …
Continue reading Why Anti-Choice is Pro-Genocide, and Uncomfortable Things about Birth Control
I'm not back yet. I just want to say that I half-heartedly intended to write some sort of post and I never did. Because I have just become angrier and angrier. And quite frankly, I don't want to write a post about Malala. I don't want to write about a 14-year-old girl shot by the …
This is 1967. In November 2008, bigotry was back on the ballot. We do not vote on rights. Support love. Invalidate Proposition H8.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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