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Lizzo Shared Her Shine with Powerful Activists During Her People's Choice Award Acceptance Speech: Meet All 17 of The
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(Entertainment)
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... do not go unnoticed and to make certain action is taken.
Sahar Pirzada @hearttogrow
Dedicated to serving the Muslim community, Sahar works with Heart to Grow to establish choice and access for Muslims ...
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Created on 08 December 2022
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Bilal Baig's "Sort Of" is Back and Queerer Than Ever for Season 2: BUST Intervi
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(TV)
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... discomfort in seeing my face at the center of something,” Baig explains. “I know it’s meant a lot for queer and trans South Asian, specifically Muslim, people, but I don’t think our world is completely ...
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Created on 02 December 2022
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9 TikTok Sex Educators Who Are Revolutionizing Our Conversations About Pleasure Right Now
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(Sex)
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... around here 🥰 #muslimtiktok #intimacy ♬ the joke is on you. icarly - Kate
Dr. Sadaf is an OBGYN, Sex Coach, and host of the Muslim Sex Podcast. She reveals the gaps she discovered in her own sex ed ...
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Created on 15 June 2022
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Issa Rae and Jenny Slate Are Back With Brand New Projects: Our Top 10 Pop Culture Picks For Summer
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(Entertainment)
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... isn’t a big payoff.
5. Ms. Marvel on Disney+
Coming to Disney+ June 8, Ms. Marvel is the first Pakistani-Muslim-American superhero to have her own comic book and series. The show stars Iman Vellani ...
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Created on 02 June 2022
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"Even Though I'm A Muslim Woman, I Still Experience The Same Things You Do." Yuna, The Malaysian Singer Sounds-Off On Modesty In The World Of R
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(Music)
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If you haven’t heard of Malaysian singer-songwriter Yuna, you’re missing out on life. Since moving to America at 23, the Muslim singer has worked hard to carve out her own lane in the world of r&b ...
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Created on 18 May 2022
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"The Sex Lives of African Women" Aims to Help African Women Decolonize Their Sexuality By Sharing Their Storie
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(Books)
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... a more hopeful, sex-positive stance, centered around truth and healing.
The book features stories of women like Nura, a Muslim woman from Kenya struggling to adjust to her polygamous marriage; Amina, ...
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Created on 11 March 2022
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"You Truly Assumed" Is a YA Novel That Focuses On The Lives of 3 Young, Black, Muslim Girls In The Aftermath of a Terrorist Attack in Washington D.C. ...
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(Books)
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You Truly Assumed
By Laila Sabreen
(Inkyard Press)
In this gripping YA novel by up-and-coming author Laila Sabreen, a terrorist attack rocks Washington, D.C., causing three Black Muslim girls—ballerina ...
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Created on 08 February 2022
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"Breaking Bread," a New Documentary on the 'A-Sham' Israeli Food Festival, Provides a Portrait of Joyous Coexisten
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(Eat Me)
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... Dr. Nof Atamna-Ismaeel, a microbiologist and mother of three from a small Arab town in Northern Israel, was the first Arab-Muslim to win Israeli MasterChef at just 33 years old. Since winning, Atamna-Ismaeel ...
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Created on 25 January 2022
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10 Must-Watch TV Shows To Get Your Cathartic Coming-Of-Age Fix Now That ‘PEN15’ Is Over
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(TV)
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... show, We Are Lady Parts. Creator Nida Manzoor (who previously directed episodes for Doctor Who and Enterprice), is the writer and director of this British sitcom about an all-female, all Muslim punk band ...
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Created on 19 January 2022
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Holy shit, holy shit, holy f'in shit—"We are Lady Parts" is phenomena
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(TV)
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“We Are Lady Parts,” written and directed by Nida Manzoor, is a hilarious British TV show about an all-girl, Muslim punk band. It’s fronted and supported by a cast of sexy as hell people of color of ...
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Created on 15 June 2021
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CUNY Students Demand University Observe Major Muslim Holiday Eid Al-Fitr
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(Living)
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City University of New York students are demanding the university system cancel class on May 13 for Eid Al-Fitr, the Muslim celebration of the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
Over 13,000 people ...
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Created on 11 May 2021
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UPS Finally Lifts Ban On Natural and Protective Black Hairstyles
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(Living)
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... and dreadlocks.
In 2018, UPS settled a case for $4.9 million with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which states that the company neglected to hire Muslims, Sikhs, Rastafarians, and others ...
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Created on 18 November 2020
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YA Author Tahereh Mafi On Why Style Matters To Her: A BUST Interview
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(Style)
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... your style? The choices I make as a visibly Muslim woman are never seen with nuance. It’s like a sledgehammer of stereotypes and misinformation. I can’t tell you how many women have said to me, “If you ...
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Created on 13 November 2020
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What's The Deal With "Cutie
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(Movies)
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... customs of her Muslim culture, Amy becomes obsessed with her neighbor Angelica (Medina El Aidi-Azouni). At school, Amy finds that Angelica is a member of a twerking dance troupe called ‘Cuties,’ which ...
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Created on 23 September 2020
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Meet Some Of TIME100's Most Influential Women of 202
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(Feminism)
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TIME magazine released their annual list of 100 most influential people last night during a live televised event in collaboration with ABC. Of the 100 listed, 54 are women and seven of them grace TIME’s ...
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Created on 23 September 2020
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"Proud Islamophobe" and Far-Right Conspiracy Theorist Laura Loomer Just Won A Republican Nomination In Florid
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(Feminism)
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... with United West, an organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center deems actively anti-Muslim.
An agitator and provocateur, Loomer has been banned from virtually every social media platform, including, ...
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Created on 19 August 2020
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Trump Is Back On His Birtherism Bullshit And Kamala Harris Is His Latest Target
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(Feminism)
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... “birtherism” movement where people suspected Obama was lying about his nationality and demanded to see his birth certificate. Many people falsely claimed that Barack Obama was a Muslim. And despite there ...
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Created on 14 August 2020
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#beautifullybisexual Is Trending On Twitter And Here's Wh
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(Entertainment)
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... Muslims! I love being a queerjabi and I love our community ? pic.twitter.com/6ITlgZxO5F
— Hafsa Qureshi (@MsHafsaQureshi) August 5, 2020
Contrary to popular belief, asexuals can be part of the bi ...
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Created on 05 August 2020
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“The Bold Type’s” Aisha Dee Speaks Out on Show’s Diversity Issues Behind the Camera and New Season’s Problematic Narrative
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(Entertainment)
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... cannot and should not fall on one person.”
She pointed out how that behind the scenes, there were no queer Black or Muslim writers on staff when they wrote that tumultuous love story of Kat and Adena. ...
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Created on 17 July 2020
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Aisha Dee Of “The Bold Type” Talks The Power of Female Friendships And Her New EP: BUST Interview
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(Entertainment)
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... playing Kat?
I mean, first and foremost, just the introduction of lesbian Muslim character, I think is really important in terms of representation that's so rare and is still unfortunately really rare ...
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Created on 13 July 2020