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 …
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The radical notion that women are people.
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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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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Protected: On Not Having Sex Right Now (Despite That It’s Practically Been Prescribed)
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The “Exemplary Feminist” Complex
Please don't use Muslim women protesting authoritarian laws as examples of "feminism done right." Women in Iran are not little pawns for bitter white ladies to use in order to gripe about third wave feminism in the US because they think sexual misconduct allegations have gone too far. (We're also on like, the 5th wave …
the fatal feminist 