Editor’s note: The writer of this piece wishes to remain anonymous.  This piece is a follow-up to one published last year, and contains discussions of disordered eating.  A few months ago, I was having a conversation with a friend about how hard Ramadan was for me last year. “You know,” she said cautiously, “the exemption […]

Editor’s note: When we first published this post during Ramadan last year, we received a huge number of responses from people telling us how much the themes of the post resonated with them.  We are planning to publish a follow-up post from the same writer later this month, but for now we wanted to share […]

The writer of this post wishes to remain anonymous. Trigger warning: This post contains discussions of body image and disordered eating. The first Ramadan that I fasted, I was struck by how easy I found it. This was not exactly a good thing.  I had struggled with control issues around food, and with my perception […]