A blog about feminism, religion/spirituality, history, and politics
**Interviewee has had named changed to protect identity. I own all the original transcripts of the interview. ** The stealing of Nordic beliefs by White Supremacist is perhaps one of the most overlooked problematic issues today. (I call this “Nordic faiths” to group in many different religious groups who follow similar Gods but don’t follow …
Your interest in discovering social issues shouldn’t stop because the BLM marches ended in 2020 or because the white supremacist invaded the capital almost a month ago
In Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses, Chandra Talpade Mohanty takes a stand on how Western feminists interact with third-world women. This paper provides a wide range of critiques on the interactions between Western feminist and third world women. Mohanty focuses on power relations and how the third world woman is defined within …
COVID has gotten me depressed. I am more stuck in the home than ever before. I do enjoy being inside the home most days. Other days I feel like I have never left my office. My days blur into one blob, without any real distinction between them. I live in the United States so that …
The mystic market whitewashes traditions, Christianizing practices. Sufism in particular was separated from Islam, through a process of whitewashing.
Sophia Rose Arjana’s Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace unravels the colonial influence on the spiritual marketplace.
The issue is, as always, the face veil is used in various ways but one. It isn’t shown as a normal outfit, something that someone like me would wear on a daily basis. Comical representation is okay with the veil as long as it is done right, like in Kim’s Convivence. The best thing I can say is that soft islamophobia is still islamophobia.
Fascism what is it? Under some Western nation’s politics today the word fascism is thrown around whenever a politician does something someone does not like. Fascism is a form of authoritarian and ultra-nationalistic ideology characterized by dictatorship, forcible suppression of individuals, and a strong regimentation of society and economy.
Are you actually helping if you’re just kissing the gushing wound better?
It is important to set our intentions for Ramadan, as we do for every new year. Setting our intentions before the holiday season helps us prepare for the month-long fast. Fasting can break up our routines because we can’t eat or drink like normal. Ramadan is perfect for positive habit forming and breaking, which is …