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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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Unpacking the “culture” argument


Posted by Krista Riley on 10 Nov 2008 / 0 Comments
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I wrote a few weeks ago about the effect of a fictional white character’s Muslim identity on possible constructions and understandings of Islam and Muslim; this week I want to look at a couple non-fictional women in similar positions. On Open Salon, a network of bloggers, this weekend’s top story was written by Sara O’Connell, […]

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Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice: Muslim Women’s Discussion in Britain


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 29 Oct 2008 / 0 Comments
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Spiced Spare Ribs! A Woman’s Question Time was a refreshing hour-long panel/audience discussion that touched on a lot of issues affecting British Muslims, Western Muslims as well as Muslims from around the globe. The women on the panel were four extremely articulate women: Catherine Heseltine (seated on the far left), Khola Hassan (seated next to […]

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