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  This is a guest piece by Mazen Abdallah, an ex-Muslim, comedian, and teacher. He is an American of Syrian-Lebanese origin who lives in Lebanon, and would like to talk about how reading the Ex-Hijabi Photo Journal–which you should go check out if you haven’t already–has influenced his perception of …

My interview with VICE about the Ex-Hijabi Fashion Photo Journal I’ll take a moment to note that this interview is the first time I publicly use my real name in conjunction with my ex-Muslim work! Here’s an excerpt:   But my body is not an object of discord to be …

Full disclosure: I’m a bit more than sufficiently intoxicated right about now, and it’s roundabout 5am, when perhaps I ought to defer to better judgment and keep from posting these things. But WTH, perhaps this blog deserves *one* impassioned drunken post. So yes, I’m drunk, and my normally amusical self …

  This post is for a subset of my allies. It’s been building up for a bit but sort of crescendoed with a lot of the responses to my Ex-Hijabi Fashion Photo Journal project, which is fabulous and you should totally check out before you read another word, go go …

  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 …

Please don’t judge hijabis for reasons pertaining to their hijab. And I know this is a request that might make us all start with the ‘but theys…’. Let’s hold off on that for a minute. Because I’ve done it too. I do still, sometimes, and catch myself. Even though I …

To my closeted ex-Muslim friends, It’s summer time, a time when a lot of you have to go back home and into the closet again. And it’s difficult and damning, especially for women and LGBTQ individuals. I have something to say to you in this situation: I’m sorry for what …

Have you ever had the desire for a sneak-peak into ex-Muslim groups to see what we commonly talk about together? During the last day or so, community members at the Ex-Muslims of North America have been having a discussion regarding the terminology we ought to use to differentiate between undue …

Hi! First of all, if you haven’t heard the news about my retiring this blog and moving on, you can read it here. I don’t usually talk about this stuff, and it’s been some time since the news of their engagement, but these reactions have been accumulating slowly and fallen …

…and moving on to the Freethought Blogs network. My transfer will also mark my official coming out. I will retire the pen name and start blogging under my real name when my new blog is launched. I’m incredibly excited about this. I will be the sixth ex-Muslim blogger to join …