Uncategorized The Pet Store 11 Aug 202020 Aug 2020 As I entered the pet store it reminded me eerily of my college days when I spent hours at bars hoping for some handsome stranger to materialize, buy me a…
covid… 2020….. my reflections on a hallmark half a year so far 25 Jul 20207 Aug 2020 https://www.instagram.com/p/B6wSpkklmbJ/?igshid=fb58pukfptjy The above is my post from December 2019 on my Instagram. We had just come back about three weeks before this from a fantastic vacation in New Orleans and…
Uncategorized Born Brown, Raised Muslim. 22 Jul 202022 Jun 2021 When women quote Islam online in response to cultural problems and they're Pakistani women I try to remember that I squashed this conundrum eons ago. That I separated being a…
Uncategorized What to do when no one’s watching? Writers edition! 10 Jul 202010 Jul 2020 I hope to have conscientious people reading it. People who always at least try to do the right thing. People who have a stake in society and therefore make their…
Uncategorized If you want to make history… 7 Jul 20208 Jul 2020 I was bobbing my head to Taylor Swift's "The Man" and didn't care what the lyrics were. It doesn't help to focus on the lyrics in the early hours of…
Uncategorized No platitudes please 3 Jun 2020 As the mom of a special needs child, platitudes are the bane of my existence. I never found them inspiring but lately, they've got less interesting and more triggering. The…
Uncategorized Growing up Muslim! 25 May 202025 May 2020 The common perception that growing up in a Muslim country will generate a better Muslim out of us was proved wrong by a few of us. We didn't become better…
Uncategorized My favorite ayat 7 May 2020 For a reformed Muslim who has been discovering herself through a combination of Deen and Duniya, it is a little surprising that I would choose this ayat. And I'll tell…
marriage… You can cheat… but away from me! 24 Apr 202024 Apr 2020 Chapter 1: She looked at the text messages, confronted him and he accepted everything. She contemplated for a few weeks and then decided to stay. What did she have to…
Uncategorized Monogamy…… natural or cultural? 22 Apr 202024 Oct 2021 Monogamy is tough. It is a test of the soul and our desires. It is also not natural. It's a cultural and religious construct to create more stable family structures.…
My mind as a woman 