It's Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race

by Mariam Khan

When a woman is ‘too much’, she is essentially uncontrollable and unashamed. That makes her dangerous.

Writing is dangerous because we are afraid of what the writing reveals: the fears, the angers, the strengths of a woman under a triple or quadruple oppression. Yet in that very act lies our survival because a woman who writes has power. And a woman with power is feared.1

We are the ones we have been waiting for.

things were a lot easier when I wasn’t woke. Or perhaps they were easier because I wasn’t woke.