Sarah Elizabeth Pahman, a masters level social worker licensed & certified in advanced practice social work, is experienced in trauma counseling and advocacy for survivors of sexual violence, sexual abuse, trafficking, and interpersonal violence. She is interested in trauma-informed care and has passions in empowerment & social justice within our communities. Based in Chicago, Sarah …
Continue reading Guest Post: Ending Systemic Discrimination Starts with Individual Acts
By popular demand, I'm writing a post about tea with amina wadud, who prefers (as I confirmed while I spun around in her bedroom) that her name be spelled with lowercase letters, like bell hooks. My auntie amina is currently visiting Indonesia and Malaysia, but before she left she gave me a copy of Domestic …
If you've been reading this website for a while, even if you're not Muslim, chances are you've caught the drift from a couple of posts that the Qur'an is absolutely gorgeous. Since I spend a lot of time here discussing the more seemingly formidable verses (see the entire "Misconceptions" tab) I haven't quite explicitly demonstrated …
Continue reading Quranic Verses and Misconceptions: The Limiting of 24:33
As if it matters, *this* barrier can be seen here. As the Prophet did, we are meant to pray with no barrier. Incidentally, what is it with men who look for every way possible to accommodate their own unprecedented preferences so they can squeeze as much privilege out of it as they can?
My coworkers and I are rather fond of each other. I'm very lucky that way, and seeing as I'm one of those women who have always drawn a distinct line between their personal and professional lives, it's really saying something as to how wonderful these women are. They're both white women, and when one of …
This post is actually a primer to another post I’ll get around to writing sometime, in which I make the argument that that there are racial and sexual implications in men (physically or otherwise) attacking women’s hair. In this particular post there are two themes: the importance of reading nonverbal cues (which is incidental) and …
This is going to be a quick post, and it's prompted by various Muslims--and naturally, they've pretty much all been men trying to "put things in perspective"--detracting from the tragedy of the Nigerian girls who've been kidnapped, raped, and sold into slavery by competing with the attention the kidnapping is receiving, via lists of various …
the fatal feminist 