The radical notion that women are people.
This past week I've received numerous emails linking me to an article written by Rajbir Singh Judge that cites a vignette I drafted with the claim, in the fluid language of academic objectivity, that my desire to pray without a barrier is dishonest and selfish. A telling excerpt is this quote from the article, "Rather …
Continue reading Men are going to write things to explain me, and y’all have to accept that.
The vast majority of Muslim men, whether from previously/currently colonized nations or otherwise, live in patriarchal cultures; the Qur’an itself addresses this, for example, when demanding to know why men have buried their daughters alive or when protecting women from accusations of adultery. However, when confronted with this reality, men pretend that they weren’t patriarchal …
# BlackMenSmiling hurts my heart. No one should have to put on a show of their humanity to convince you they’re human. It wasn’t until after I had this reaction, my nerves both flighted and recoiled at the tweets and headlines, that I remembered a former friend said this to me about Muslims presenting themselves …
I am finally able to form an explanation—in words—for why I cannot seem to ever answer this question despite being asked every two weeks. The question of whether I want to get married is not the same as whether I want to go to law school or whether I want to …I don’t know, be …
It is a myth that “patriarchy discourages men from displaying emotions,” and a dangerous one. A variety of emotions, ranging from anger to ambivalence to jealousy (unavailable to women, who are perceived as irrational, cold, erratic) is perceived as valid and more so objective in men. Even the argument that patriarchy discourages all sexes from …
In response to descriptions of Ansari’s sexual misconduct, Caitlin Flanagan wrote a horrendous article which I will not link (but you have undoubtedly seen) with many memorable quotes, including this one: “I thought it would take a little longer for the hit squad of privileged young white women to open fire on brown-skinned men. I …
by Inas Hyatt and TFF Non-black Muslims often (mis)appropriate the terms “intersectionality” and “white feminism” to the detriment of black Muslim women. This appropriation ranges from coopting the theory of intersectionality to defend Muslim men who threaten or deflect from Muslim women accusing them of assault, to sidetracking from the migrant slave trade by introducing …
the fatal feminist 