Some of you may have noticed that I haven't been writing as frequently about Islam as of late. This is because I am working on a project that consumes all of my Islam-writing time. However, it's centered around a specific realm, so I will still be writing little pieces on Islam in other areas. As …
LGBT people get to decide whether you are their ally; you don’t.
This email has been brought to you by questions from straight people like yours truly. To "fellow allies" or whatever, I don't know whether I'm an LGBT ally. I don't talk about how much of an ally I am or about being an ally. That is because the decision is not mine. My intention is …
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on the student debt crisis
There is one. It's a crisis by which I am decidedly unaffected. I will be graduating this spring with a B.A. and zero debt. I chose my university according to my budget. I won't be paying my own (nonexistent) student debt, but with taxes, I will probably be paying yours. Irrespective of that, and despite …
“collective” sin
Islam, thankfully, rejects the belief in Original Sin (17:15), and in fact anyone disabled of full mental capacity also loses the ability to sin, until (and unless) that capacity is restored--that includes children before reaching an age of understanding and, less often mentioned, the dreamer before waking. I was taught this as I grew up, …
Update #2: here take my ideas
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 …
It’s May. [Update #1]
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 …
Spoiler Alert
Nahida does, in fact, return.
the fatal feminist 