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Muslim Anti-Racist Collaborative Centres Black Muslim Voices


Posted by sharrae on 18 Mar 2014 / 0 Comments
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Black Muslims took to Twitter last month in light of Black History Month, which is celebrated in February in North America. The Muslim Anti-Racist Collaborative (MuslimARC), a collaborative of diverse Muslims dedicated to combatting anti-Black racism, discrimination and exclusion within the Muslim community, launched a Twitter campaign that has opened the door to discussing anti-black […]

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Racism and Responsibility: Seeking Solidarity with Black Muslimahs


Posted by amina on 25 Jun 2013 / 0 Comments
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MuslimasTRI (Tackling Real Issues) is a new channel on YouTube started by two American women, Dena and Erin. In one of their videos, Erin shares an extremely personal incident when a Pakistani man she was romantically interested in said he couldn’t speak to her because she was black. On her blog, Jamerican Muslimah offers an […]

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Black Muslim Lesbians Find Community in Atlanta’s Gay Mecca: Part 2


Posted by sharrae on 29 May 2013 / 0 Comments
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In Part 1 of this post, I introduced to you activist, artist and documentary filmmaker Red Summer. She along with the women in her upcoming film Al Nisa: Muslim Women in Atlanta’s Gay Mecca have been creating intentional spaces of community for Black Lesbian Muslims, where they can share and connect without negotiating the multiple […]

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Black Muslim Lesbians Find Community in Atlanta’s Gay Mecca: Part 1


Posted by sharrae on 29 May 2013 / 2 Comments
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Oppression works in strategic ways. When we think of who is the oppressor and who is the oppressed, as Muslim women in “the West” we often automatically think about the white liberal feminist who speaks on the behalf of “Third World” women, women of colour and Muslim women. However, what about the level of social […]

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Nur Media’s “Ask A Muslim” Series: Black Muslims Talk Islam


Posted by sharrae on 01 Jan 2013 / 0 Comments
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Finding black Muslim women in mainstream media circuits can be like finding a needle in a haystack. Most of the representations of Muslim people are confined to Arab and South Asian people, which are both the faults of mainstream producers and Muslim-owned media makers. However, it leaves other communities within the broader Muslim community to […]

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The Invisible Muslimah


Posted by faith on 08 Oct 2008 / 0 Comments
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What’s the first image that comes to your mind when you think of a Muslim woman? Is she Arab or South Asian? White or maybe Afghan or Indonesian? Notice that I haven’t mentioned African American (and also Latina). The media depiction of Muslim women usually does not include African American women. Often, Muslim women are […]

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