Hello! So you might have noticed that I’ve haven’t been blogging lately. You might be thinking I’ve been off on adventures, such as travelling the world or slaying dragons, but alas, you are wrong. I haven’t travelled anywhere other than the dungeons of the Toronto subway system. My internship has taken over my life, ladies…
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Becoming Ikhlas
I didn’t realise I was brown until I was 4 and a half years old. I didn’t realise I was different until I was the age to start school. I didn’t realise there was something different about me. I thought I was like everyone else. Unlike everyone else, I was an only child. Well, until…
Muslim Fashionistas: My Amethyst’s Shea Rasol
When researching for my Muslim Fashionistas paper in my 3rd year Islam and Modernity class, I discovered Shea’s blog My Amethyst. Instead of feeling like I was doing homework, I researched happily, discovering the different ways that Muslim girls dressed, hijabis and non-hijabis alike, around the world. After stumbling upon Shea’s blog in…
Catching up
Hello! Hi. Anyeo (that’s Korean for hi) 🙂 How’s it going? So its been a really long time since I’ve posted here, and I thought I’d do a catch up post. It feels like I haven’t posted anything in ages and ages. All right, I have posted little things, but no book reviews or anything…
No
I don’t know what they want from me. Its show day and the girls scuttle around the tent, gathering skirts and veils and bangles and shoes. We are all made to sit on chairs; our smiles frozen on our faces. They enter the tent, clipboards in hand. The prospective men don’t come into the tent;…