Arab*
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Feminist
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art, especially cultural, innovative, philosophical or surrealist stuff.
diverse kinds of music
social activism and current issues, civil rights, unlearning privilege, the middle east, palestine, latin america, race consciousness unlearning privilege, nonviolence, feminism the third world, LGBTQXYz,blahblahblah
(*and half Bosnian/Croatian)
http://andwedeliquesce.tumblr.com/post/15376048418/do-you-still-consider-yourself-muslim*and the inevitable question that comes after "arab"IF YOU KNOW ME IN REAL LIFE, PLEASE EXIT THIS BLOG because it must have taken megacreepin to find this.
The Muslim woman as constructed by book covers designed to make white people feel better about themselves. Note two cases of the same image used twice.
I remember my professors at the AUC talking about how difficult it was to get published as an Arab female writer if they weren’t writing about either:
- oppression, or
- escaping oppression
Proof of that is above. God forbid there be some other story of interest to tell.
I’m actually noticing heavy exoticisation archetypes in the FONT chosen.
Ridic.
I made some new covers
For the discerning Muslim woman
look for my next bestseller.
back when this happened. oh man.
I’m laughing so hard I can’t even add coherent commentary to this beautiful post
i actually own one of these books and another one i think by an author on here and now that i see my name (Nadia) i’m thrilled to read that one. but yes i am always pissed that the only books i see about us are the ones of 7 yr olds sold to men etc etc ugh
reblogging this for “MOMENTS IN WHICH THE CLUB COULD NOT HANDLE ME”
thiiis is pretty amazing it also reminds me of a girl at my school whom I’ve sometimes seen wearing this shiny gold...
power to Muslim women!!
So much of this! I mean, in many places Muslimahs ARE oppressed, but that is certainly NOT the totality of the Muslimah...
XDDD I died at the “real” picture. “Except for this one. She’s weird” XD