…although in all honesty, I’m not certain what I mean by “soon.” As far as this blog is concerned, it used to mean a couple of days, but it might mean five or six now. I’m not exceptionally busy per se, but have been conquered by some strange reflective daze, as though I’m on the …
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Good in Bed
Happy Spring Break! Unfortunately I have essays to write. =P Too many to be good in bed.
some notes on romance
As lately I’ve been unable to write on weekdays, this will be brief. With the qualification that “every issue is a women’s issue” I’m sure this relates to feminism in some way, though I’m uncertain exactly where to fasten the connection or articulate the interaction: I have a difficult time distinguishing romance within sexual relationships …
blogiversary
It’s been one year of the fatal feminist. When I first started this site I meant it to be a recording of my interpretations, of ijtihād—the notes in the margins of my copy of the Qur’an—arranged for myself so that my beliefs were organized and I could examine them properly in a place created specially …
What’s this about a new year?
For me the year ends in June, and winter is not the beginning but a divide between the semesters of which a year is composed. Summer is a strange period in which time is suspended, a vast meadow with knee-high yellow grass when I’m staring at the page of a book and a beach with …
In which Nahida falls into a door
Back at my mother’s house for the holidays, I took to dancing ballet in my bedroom. I did not reveal to my mother that this is why I slipped, dear readers, though I am disclosing it to you. This is not because I am embarrassed for dancing ballet—for I assure you that I am quite …
A Quick Music Break
Does anyone love Enya? I heard one of her songs when I was very young, and it made me cry more than once—though not the lyrics as much as the music itself. But whenever I brought it up, my friends would scowl or roll their eyes or wrinkle their noses and pronounce, “But it’s so …
the fatal feminist 