Ayelet Shaked is a parliament member and lawmaker in Israel, the settler state built on Palestinian land, who remarked that all Palestinian mothers "have to die and their houses should be demolished so that they cannot bear any more terrorists," appearing unaware that her agenda and occupation of Palestinian land breeds the "terrorists" intent on …
Continue reading State of Israel Devises Ethnic Cleansing of Ethiopian Jews and Palestinians
I've been thinking about appropriation--not just cultural appropriation, but of a variation of appropriation that is equally if not just a little more sinister: the appropriation of appearance. This is something that is bodily, involves policing the autonomy itself of women of color, and results in valuing the woman wearing the imitation more than the …
Continue reading Imitating the Appearances of People of Color
A few months ago a very, very good friend of mine, at the prospect of having a Mormon for president, revealed a sentiment along the lines of, "I know it doesn't matter to you, Nahida, but it feels kind of sad and strange not to have a president who's not your religion for the first …
I'm not back yet. I just want to say that I half-heartedly intended to write some sort of post and I never did. Because I have just become angrier and angrier. And quite frankly, I don't want to write a post about Malala. I don't want to write about a 14-year-old girl shot by the …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0jSSLleGiY The woman in this video is Mona Eltahawy. She is vandalizing an ad. The woman who runs up to the poster with a camera and assaults her is Pamela Hall. [I placed the ad Eltahawy was vandalizing here but have removed it because frankly I don't feel like looking at it. I'm sure you …
Continue reading Pamela Hall Should be Arrested for Assault (And Why She Wasn’t)
I am writing this post despite the sense that the last three posts I wrote unrelated to Islam are about race and I am kind of eyeing how it throws off my usual variation here. Before I introduce all the twitter drama, let me recount the incident to which it refers—infamously christened EG, or ElevatorGate. …
Continue reading “White atheists are the WORST!”: Discrepancies in Identifying Racism
Sometimes I wonder if I love my state more than I love my country. In fact, not even all of California--just the Bay Area specifically; the rest of the state might as well be another to me. I suspect that I haven't felt loved here--after all, the city is a harsh and lonely place. There …
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