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May 15 - May 28, 2025
The stories in this collection are about young people finding home wherever they are. In these stories, teens are seen as they are, are known, are loved. Every person deserves that. And all of us need to build a world where that is possible.
It’s critical for kids to see themselves on the page, now more than ever. It’s critical for them to know that who they are—and who they want to be—is okay. They are to be celebrated. I hope they know that they can make their way through the world and find home wherever they go, like our parents did. Like we did, too.
It was the fourth time in the last two months that Sameera had visited Nabila, her tarot girl, telling her parents that she was going over to Nabila’s house to study, saying her salaams to Nabila’s parents and hot older brother, before sneaking into Nabila’s room to ask her an unrelenting question—why was her best friend, Naadia, being such a raging bitch? “Girl, don’t you want to ask a different question?” Nabila sighed,
Sameera needed the tarot reading, a way that Allah could answer her prayers quickly without the humdrum of her own mind.
Did her trusted tarot girl perhaps not like her? What did it mean that she was asking someone who found her annoying to divine on her behalf?
