The radical notion that women are people.
The pledge below, a collaborative effort of Orbala, myself, Zahra Khan, Laury Silvers, and Saadia Sultana, among other Muslim feminists, seeks to boycott panels, anthologies, conferences, etc. where at least half of the speakers are not women until this cute, unIslamic trend is eliminated entirely. We advise that only men should sign the pledge, as …
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The fabulous Orbala presented yesterday at a conference in UC Berkeley on the question of whether misogyny in the Muslim community towards Muslim women is a form of Islamophobia. Before she'd posed the question on Facebook to explore this construction, Orbala and I had a discussion about its implications. She asked, "How [meaning how is …
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When I was in high school, I had (and still have) a friend who is very dear to me. We'll call her T, the first initial of my affectionate nickname for her. T and I attended the same middle school, where we excelled in physics as an undefeated dynamic duo. In high school we grew …
On February 10th, 2015, Yusor Abu Salha, 21, was shot execution-style alongside her husband of six weeks, Deah Barakat, 23, and her sister Razan Abu-Salha, 19, by a man who resembles a potato. The potato-terrorist’s name is Craig Stephen Hicks, a 46-year-old while male who, according to the malestream media, shot the three innocent students …
Continue reading On the Deaths We Choose to Mourn… And the Ones We Choose to Forget
It seems the women’s-only mosque in LA has brought out quite a bit of male panic—and brought out the white knights alike. Most of you have undoubtedly seen what Yasir Qadhi, Abu Eesa’s BFF, has had to say about it: When our sisters are deprived from the right to come to the mosques, or given …
I honest to God was not going to write a post about this, but since I have begrudgingly begun, I'm going to make this as brief as possible. I don't expect celebrities, like Katy Perry, or Madonna, or Lady Gaga--or, as much as I actually do like her--Angelina Jolie, to understand what they're doing when …
Continue reading Alright, fine, let’s talk about Selena Gomez’s ankle.
When I was an undergrad about a year and a half ago, I had a professor whose class was such a frustrating experience that even the memory of it is discomforting. Aside from the horrifying discussion she entertained in the classroom about whether a student in a novel we were reading had actually been raped …
Continue reading The Racism of Being Told to Keep Your Audience in Mind
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