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Ignorant Solidarity with Muslim Sportswomen


Posted by shireen on 26 May 2015 / 1 Comment
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Who doesn’t love stories and reports of young Muslims girls in Afghanistan, leaping through the air and landing on their skateboards? The agility and passion for skateboarding is juxtaposed with general tomboy badassery, which it is implied, is surprising to find in in their homeland. Their long colourful dresses heighten the wonder of their athleticism. […]

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Culture/Society

Bones of the #Mipsterz Debacle


Posted by shireen on 13 Jan 2014 / 2 Comments
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The beginning of December brought a season of joy and cheer. For Muslims in the United States and Canada, it also brought some of the most heated and intense debates on social media about Islam and identity, community, critique, critique of critiques, slut-shaming, and who may (not) speak for, to, about (un)veiled Muslim women regarding […]

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