Author Archive

• Bekhsoos: Concerning Homophobia

  September 23rd, 2008 How excited was I when our editor, Fatemeh, emailed out a link to a new online magazine called...

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• What NOT to do if you are a male feminist ally.

  September 16th, 2008 It can sometimes be interesting (i.e. RIDICULOUS) to hear the advice of a man on how women can...

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• Iranian women continue to fight the system…

  September 9th, 2008 …but somehow the news article that covers it decides to completely change the subject to whether or not...

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• Mouth to Mouth: How Pakistani Senator’s Comments Overshadow the Real Story

  September 2nd, 2008 Ramadan Mubarak everyone! I spent the first day of Ramadan at the Republican National Convention in the Twin...

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• Mother Knows Best: CNN’s interview with an alleged suicide bomber

  August 26th, 2008 Sometimes I wonder why I even browse CNN.com anymore. However, it does tend to make for a good...

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• A New Kind of Jihad

  August 12th, 2008 Is it possible to capture the lives of queer, gay, lesbian and bisexual Muslims in the span of...

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• Chay’s First Issue

  August 5th, 2008 We want to talk about sex and sexuality. Particularly, its politics. Particularly the power it has over us,...

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• Gay and Muslim!? Yes, It’s True!

  July 22nd, 2008 I saw this documentary, called Gay Muslims, quite a while ago…it came out more than two years ago!...

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• Does hymen restoration = virginity restoration?

  July 15th, 2008 This sunday, Time published a story about the rising rates of hymenoplasty in France. the operation seeks to...

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• hi my name is fatima.

  July 15th, 2008 before last week’s post about the most recent incident of domestic violence in atlanta, i completely forgot to...

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