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 …
Continue reading Diaspora Romanticizing Discarded Patriarchal Traditions
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.
Bear with me for a second, because I want to be painfully honest about south asian women in regards to an issue which speaks to why Rupi Kaur has been plagiarizing nayyirah waheed from the very beginning of her career. And when I say honesty, I am speaking of my own experience and perspective: I …
My fever for the past few days is currently at 103°F, so I apologize in advance if this post makes jumps, but it all bears repeating. No one in the history of revolutions has ever placed sex before race, including white women, who consistently prioritize their race over their sex (see: voting for men who've …
Continue reading White Feminists Prioritize Race Over Sex: on Failing to Understand White Feminism
I haven't returned to writing here yet, but I just wanted to post about a Facebook group I've started. It's called Wanderlust, and it's for female travelers of color to share their experiences. Although I didn't imagine there would be more than 6 members, there were 125 within the first 24 hours. I suppose I'm …
Does our last guest writer even need an introduction? Metis, wife, mother, academic, and a writer on topics related to religion and feminism, is the badass behind MusFem, where feminism is spoken fluently--and the gridlocks of conventional wisdom is challenged. Under different names, Metis has always been a subversive voice of uncompromising reason and astounding …
Continue reading Guest Post: Culture, nationalism, and the myth of a monolithic Islam
Is it already? I meant to write something. (I actually meant to write quite a lot.) But--well, it didn't happen. So here are a number of updates. About halfway through the semester, a woman in one of my English classes had expressed dissatisfaction that she wasn’t able to read a lot of the “classics” she …
the fatal feminist 