“Our Lord, we have wronged ourselves. And if You do not forgive us and have mercy upon us, we will surely be among the losers.” – Surah Al-A’raf (7:23) Dear Fellow Warrior, Today is the most sacred day of the Islamic year… The best day of the year for the Muslim!A day when Muslims around…
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Your Right to Be Heard
Dear Fellow Warrior, It is true that people think there must be something wrong with you, something you did wrong, because you need to be heard, because you need to express your pain, because you expressed a challenge or a struggle or some harm or injustice done to you or to others. This isn’t just…
I am not trying… I am
Dear Fellow Warrior, I wrote this poem on the way back from Busboys and Poets Open Mic Poetry in Washington, DC, yesterday. I feel this ties together a lot of what I have struggled at a personal, systemic level, embracing my post-PhD “Identity Crisis”, navigating both intimate and systemic surveillance, judgment, and resistance towards “Invisibilization.”…
Intrusive Thoughts
Dear Fellow Warrior, There is so much to say sometimes. Way too much…It’s all there. All in the head. The ruminations. I even started a document called Ruminations while I work on my Academic job applications because I cannot seem to get myself to concentrate, in part because of the shame and guilt I feel…
The Soul of an “Angry Brown Woman”
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” – Kahlil Gibran Dear Fellow Warrior, I wrote this recently one night, while fighting my insomnia. I call this piece of writing, “The Soul of an Angry Brown Woman” Let me know what you think of it. The Soul…
Losing “Engagement”
“Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you, keep your eyes on the Friend.” – Rumi (from Rumi’s Little Book of Love) Dear Fellow Warrior and Friend, I just wanted to keep you posted about something with respect to this website. The social network icons are…
The “Qurbani Ka Bakarah”
Featured photo: NaniSer Village, in District Tharparkar, Sindh, Pakistan. February 7, 2019. Happy July Everyone! I was happy to learn this week, that July is Disability Pride month. I may have missed this all these years. But I am so happy this is the issue that is covered in July. Happy Disability Pride Month! And…
Songs of Victory….
Yesterday, I attended my School-specific graduation. I really wanted to get a lot of different things done relevant to my dissertation research before this date, but it couldn’t happen due to the need to prioritize the “dignity of work” which I will address in a different post. It was a special and important moment for…