Join the Ex-Hijabi Fashion Photo Journal!
I’m very excited about launching this new project: the Ex-Hijabi Fashion Photo Journal! Featuring ex-hijabis with awesome hairstyles and tattoos and piercings. Ex-hijabis in bikinis and little black dresses and cargo pants and hiking boots. Ex-hijabis who are femme and ex-hijabis who are butch. Ex-hijabis who are women and …
A Tirade of Snark to My Clueless Muslim Critics
Herein I unleash the snark. I can’t always wax gently lyrical. Context: My last blog post was about having conversations regarding sex and virginity with family, a musing exploration of the disconnect in exchanging ideas while trying to understand each other. This morning I approved a new comment on the …
To the girls in the video on niqab…
They say : This liberates you? I want to known for my intellect and not for how short my skirt is …communication barrier… BEHOLDEN I don’t want to be just another rape statistic …status of women is decreasing… …Western women as sex object… …honors me, protects me, it tells me …
What it is like to be an Ex-Muslim woman
Life and love post-hijab… …wherein also I reveal a bunch of my faces [Content Note: Body image, dissociation, mental illness, also small spoiler from Disney’s Frozen] More from the ‘what it’s like to be a…’ series here, here, and here. Some nights, I wish for remnants of that old Muslim …
Women – An Irresistible Force
I watched the Maryam Namazie interview with the lady who was defending gender segregation. It is intriguing how she made MSA events look like feminist projects that will end up being abandoned because of the “Separate is never equal” movement. According to her line of reasoning, muslim women can only …
How the Hijab Objectifies: Part One of the Hijab Series
This is the first in a three-part discussion about the hijab, suppression, and objectification. In this 1st post, I discuss the hijab as a defense against sexual objectification. In the 2nd post, I will discuss when, where, how, and whether women freely choose the hijab in the most radically agential …
A call for mercy, because of what Muslims and ex-Muslims share
I wrote a blog post a couple of weeks ago. It was read by tens of thousands of human beings. This would be unnerving in and of itself, but the feedback I received is what really moved me. It was so resounding that I am still shaking from the grace …
What it is like to be a Muslim woman
…and why we know what freedom is. For Part Two of this, see here. For a defense and rationale of the title ‘What it is like to be a Muslim woman’, see here. For more from the ‘what it is like to…’ series see here and here. ~.~ I have keys. …