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  • Love, Whiteness, and Girls in Turbans

    Originally posted on Love, InshAllah: Lots of things have been going down at LoveInshallah.com and within the Muslim blogosphere. The recent article on Muslim men returning “back home” to find wives generated diverse cyber chatter, with various responses supporting or criticizing different positions.  On the heels of that debate, the Miptserz-coining, Somewhere in America, video featuring women…

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  • Ides of the Dancer

    She understands death before rebirth. She smells such secrets in the morning air scented in your honor: crisp, feral, transitional. There is a tincture in autumn ether; the decaying fruit will later spill seed. She can sense your world in these dewy vapors so free so free with your secrets; your masks so uncertain these

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  • Ghosts, Magic and Love

    Originally posted on Love, InshAllah: I left my twelve-year marriage two years ago this week.  The decision was a long time coming, yet the final countdown involved a weekend at an abandoned haunted asylum hunting ghosts in the dark with a religious philosophy professor and his wife.   We found our way to a room where…

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  • Slouching Towards Mecca

    My guest blog at The Outlier Collective (an awesome site even without my contribution) —

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