This is a legitimate question, and I'm very moved that there are readers who ask it after all these months. The truth is, I am very much writing, just not here. That's not due to a lack of interest or subjects to cover. I haven't been interacting with men. At all. I don't have any male …
a note to The Most Merciful
Darling when I'm a saint You're so far away if I misbehave will I hear from You again.
Studying other religions
I've noticed Muslims (at least in the west) avoid studying other religions, or do disparagingly so with an overly pronounced skepticism, supposedly because they fear weakening their own faith. It's illogical on multiple levels: how are Muslims going to believe the Divine Revelations were released in every language yet still disparage world religions they don't …
Pronouns
Some of you have spoken to me before. On the phone. Through video. In person. There's no trace of a residual accent. I moved to California when I was 2 years old. I can hardly speak my mother tongue. "You sound so Californian!" some of you have exclaimed, and then (incorrectly), "Are you from LA?" …
Some modest announcements.
Look, I know I'm like that wild world-traipsing aunt you have with outlandish fashion choices who disappears for three years and then comes bearing gifts to buy earn your love, but the good thing about her is that... she comes bearing gifts. My short story, "How to Love a Rabbit" was published in Catapult magazine. …
Don’t bother boycott Hajj.
If you weren't boycotting Saudi for its exploitation of women or for its reign of terror over Yemen, don't bother skipping on Hajj to protest how expensive it is for your poor little pockets. By all means, go. Cry vacantly over your soul. Muslims who value money over blood need all the redemption they can …
It’s my way or… I guess I’m taking the highway.
In the midst of frustrations with my tragus, I’ve arrived to a realization about my body, and that’s if it reacts with complications to being wounded—i.e. those helix piercings that weren’t healing because I ran my hairbrush through them—it’s not going to heal properly around the wound unless I completely remove the piercing, let the …
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the fatal feminist 