Admittedly, even as a Western woman, I still grapple with the role of nudity in the feminist movement--the only real incorporation of it that I understood entirely had been the Slutwalks, and that is because the message wasn't, "I am free to be sexy!" but, "You can't rape me if I am, and you can't …
Continue reading Why Nudity Doesn’t Work (for Islamic Feminism)
I have added one! (I officially have too many tabs. I hope it isn't overwhelming.) Occasionally I am asked what my sources are, and most of the time I remember, and sometimes I don't. This is because the way I write posts isn't really calculated--I tend to not know what I'm about to write until …
Dear readers, there are few "Islamic" [?!] practices that I reject entirely (actually I can only think of this one), but if I were to toss out any--any at all--it would be the practice of "giving away" the bride. Fuck that noise, seriously. This is one of those things that is mandated nowhere in the …
Continue reading And the Patriarchy Lunges: the Purpose of the Wali
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Your wonderful messages seem to have gotten some attention--if you remember from this post, the mosque in my area is in the middle of a (very long) reconstruction process, and recently they've announced that they were going to "fix something" about the discrepancy in the space allotted to women compared to men, because there have …
Sometimes when my hair is undone it looks something like this: Except it still grows down, not up, and the result is a "nightmare." To come across it in professional photography, even if it is just to showcase a hair salon, is such a funny feeling.
The very earliest of the Umayyads did not keep harems of jawari (or slave women, if I can translate roughly for a moment), but instead a woman’s power was rightfully her own, and her nobility was measured by her defiance. Among the women who demonstrate this are Sakina bint al-Hussain and A’isha bint Talha, both …
Continue reading Islamic History and the Women You Never Hear About: Zaat al-Khaal
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