Probably things everyone has heard of, but I've really enjoyed this article on the lessons we can learn from jinn in the Qur'an. I love stuff like this. Feminist Frequency has completed her series on tropes, with #6, The Straw Feminist Previously: The Mystical Pregnancy The Evil Demon Seductress The Smurfette Principle Women in Refrigerators …
Body Image, and Tentative Confessions
My friends say I'm the bravest one. We pick movies and I almost always want a horror film, with a good dose of psychological thriller, and I tend to burst into laughter at the parts that make them jump. When there are repeatedly strange occurrences, I'm the first to walk forward and examine, ready to …
Myth: The Rape Fantasy
Today I read someone claim that because some women have "rape" fantasies, they must be motivated by a sex drive that causes them to subconsciously behave in a manner that would allow them to "fulfill" these fantasies, impacting their impulses and the way they dress and behave as well as what they notice and their …
“I don’t identify as a Muslim feminist because those women are total bitches.”
God loves not the utterance of loud unpleasant speech except from one who is being oppressed. And God is Hearing, Knowing. (Qur’an [An-Nisa] 4:148) *cough* Awwwkward.
“Sisters in the back, quiet down please.”
A Free Radical produced an excellent post a week ago titled "Some other reasons you won't find me at the masjid" --which I highly recommend. I do regularly visit the mosque, and I must, because I have plans to reclaim it (or else build my own) but the post, in conjunction with woodturtle's "keeping our …
9/11
I couldn't write because I don't have a story. I don't remember anything but the towers burning. And animosity. At school I pledged allegiance to a flag half mast and a country I never betrayed a country that had betrayed me. I didn't cry. because I was unworthy of shedding tears. Who cares if the …
The Qur’an Is Blatantly Anti-Patriarchal
This entire post adds commentary to Asma Barlas' book "Believing Women in Islam": Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an. I highly recommend it. Reverence Your God Who created you from a single person Created, of similar nature, its mate and from them twain scattered like seeds countless men and women;-- Reverence God, through Whom ye …
the fatal feminist 