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The Western Muslim Woman, Part II: Visual Presentation and Interpretation
Having thrown out the idea of identifying with a race in part I, I feel I should make something clear: as much as I see the social construct of race to be problematic, I am not interested in ripping...
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“White people don’t have a monopoly on genetic variation.”–Chally Kacelnik
I wrote this elsewhere but am posting it here for two reasons. Firstly, I want to link you to this article written by Chally stating that white people don’t have a monopoly on genetic variation and I...
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Stop Talking about Drones
This is going to be a quick post, and it’s prompted by various Muslims–and naturally, they’ve pretty much all been men trying to “put things in perspective”–detracting from the tragedy of the Nigerian...
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Imitating the Appearances of People of Color
I’ve been thinking about appropriation–not just cultural appropriation, but of a variation of appropriation that is equally if not just a little more sinister: the appropriation of appearance. This is...
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You have the right to bear children.
You have the right to bear children. No one may enter your body and alter the state of your existence with an entitled twist of cold medical instruments. If you are impoverished, you have the right to...
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On the Deaths We Choose to Mourn… And the Ones We Choose to Forget
On February 10th, 2015, Yusor Abu Salha, 21, was shot execution-style alongside her husband of six weeks, Deah Barakat, 23, and her sister Razan Abu-Salha, 19, by a man who resembles a potato. The...
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colorism.
One of the incredibly inspirational women I follow on Twitter tweeted that her mother in law, who was visiting, had said about her sweet adorable daughter, “I wish the baby was fair like you and not...
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