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Women’s sexuality in the Muslim context. With no shame.

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Am I too brown or too white?
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Am I too brown or too white?

Part 1: Too White?
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Queenzarrr4 days ago
The joys of explaining personal choices: The hijab

The joys of explaining personal choices: The hijab

This article was sparked by Laurence Rossignol, the French minister for women comparing women who wear the headscarf to ‘negroes’ in the US…
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AmnaApr 3
Egyptian Women: Sexual Harassment is A Universal Issue

Egyptian Women: Sexual Harassment is A Universal Issue

Usually, Farah opts to wear conservative clothing when going out; but today she felt confident and wanted her clothes to express that. She…
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evelyn atienoApr 3
SHEzaadi Homework: April 4

SHEzaadi Homework: April 4

Hey SHEzaadis! It’s been a while since we’ve lovingly assigned to you your homework in keeping up with brown ladydom, so brace yourself for…
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Sabeen Khan5 days ago
Safe spaces — a term I keep hearing a lot these days.

Safe spaces — a term I keep hearing a lot these days.

A girl child in the South Asian subcontinent is never safe. If she survives her conception in the womb through some liberal bent of mind of…
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Arshia MalikApr 2

Why are her clothes your problem?

An article yesterday in The Telegraph shared pictures of M&S’s new range of burkinis. Okay, cool! An article on fashion and diversity? …not…so much. ¶ I didn’t expect to do another post on body shaming so soon but couldn’t help but comment when columnist Allison Pearson harked things like this ¶ what on earth is our own dear Marks’n’Sparks, well-loved purveyor of undies to British womanhood, doing lending its name to something which is so alien to this country’s values? ¶ Not only do her words sound like something a great grandparent would say about Italian food, “Not touching any of that foreign junk!”
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Parisa HashempourMar 22
The Future is Female.

The Future is Female.

Tonight we got to witness the most epic collaboration of two South Asian women to both talk about femininity and celebrate the release of…
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QueenzarrrMar 30
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