December 2010
Islam & Exclusion of Women in the Mosque//"Me and... →
Something good to watch. All 52 minutes of this documentary are viewable for free.
Much of what these women were saying, I felt today when I went to Jummah. Muslim women prayed in an entirely different part of the Masjid. We watched the Khutbah from a television screen, craning our necks. Our prayer area was hot and crowded. I can’t be at peace in prayer when I am listening to the surah...
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kotn:
Awesome! So… This is what happens when you’re not sick? RT @kameelahwrites I am designing something today.
Today, I will write.
Eight Homeless Youth Die in New Orleans Fire –... →
dominickbrady:
This article states that the homelss population has doubled and 75% are reported to be Katrina victims. Left behind.
claytoncubitt:
“Since Katrina, New Orleans has a severe homeless problem because of the scarcity of affordable housing. HUD and local governments demolished over 4000 affordable public housing apartments after Katrina. “The current housing crisis in New Orleans...
“Eventually it comes to you, the thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at...”
– Lorraine Hansberry (via awritersruminations)
artofkawaii asked: Dice from 25Hours is doing the silkscreening. You might know him. Come back already, heard you guys are all snowed in up there!
“An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.”
– William Bernbach (via libraryland)
artofkawaii asked: Dice from 25Hours is doing the silkscreening. You might know him. Come back already, heard you guys are all snowed in up there!
“Did the bill pledging federal funds for the health care of 9/11 responders...”
– Jon Stewart’s Advocacy Role in 9/11 Bill Passage - NYTimes.com
While I agree there is no doubt that there are parallels between what Stewart does and advocacy journalism, I’m always bothered by comparisons to people like Cronkite.
Was Cronkite really the measuring stick of prudent journliasm?...
Mamihlapinatapai
artofkawaii:
ohnorobo:
“A word from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the “most succinct word”, and is considered one of the hardest words to translate. It describes ‘a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that they both desire but which neither one wants to start’.”
there’s a word for it!...
How Imam Hussain’s role in Karbala still has an... →
afghanipoppy:
Tariq Ramadan and Ammar Nakshawani
Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Jean Toomer’s ‘Cane’ -... →
Renown came to Jean Toomer with his 1923 book “Cane,” which mingled fiction, drama and poetry in a formally audacious effort to portray the complexity of black lives. But the racially mixed Toomer’s confounding efforts to defy being stuck in conventional racial categories and his disaffiliation with black culture made him perhaps the most enigmatic writer associated with the Harlem...
For Bentham and Others, Scholars Enlist Public to... →
Since University College London began transcribing the papers of the Enlightenment philosopher Jeremy Bentham more than 50 years ago, it has published 27 volumes of his writings — less than half of the 70 or so ultimately expected.
The painstakingly slow job of transcribing often hard-to-decipher handwritten documents from history’s lead players — not to mention a lack of funds — has meant that...
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us...”
– Ira Glass (via hyperallergic)
“I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of...”
– Bishop Desmond Tutu (via girlinboyclothes)
“In my mailbag I received an excellent example of the sort of reporting I’m...”
– News Desk: The Moral Hazards of Humanitarian Aid: What Is to Be Done? : The New Yorker (via guerrillamamamedicine)
so, a previous post asked “what does the deregulation of resistance look like?” to me—this would be number one step towards deregulated resistance. the zapatistas have...
atapestryofdisasters-deactivate asked: ah... shall i send you something, inshaAllah?
atapestryofdisasters-deactivate asked: ah... shall i send you something, inshaAllah?
atapestryofdisasters-deactivate asked: salaams sis! just wanted to say hi, i miss you, i love the new photo on your sidebar, i hope you are well & enjoying your break, i miss you.
oh yeah, and i miss you.
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oh yeah, and i miss you.
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atapestryofdisasters-deactivate asked: salaams sis! just wanted to say hi, i miss you, i love the new photo on your sidebar, i hope you are well & enjoying your break, i miss you.
oh yeah, and i miss you.
<3
oh yeah, and i miss you.
<3
Sufism?
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. ~Jean Rhys
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