sister-hood is an award-winning digital magazine spotlighting the diverse voices of women of Muslim heritage.

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Bibi

Bibi is perpetually between jobs. She hopes to one day be known as the founder of Dravidian Tigers Liberation Front - Marxist, but for now she's content just combating stupidity on the internet by scornfully gazing at tweets.
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The nature of dissent

The extremist’s beard is like kindling — it takes very little to burn a nation. In Pakistan, there are thousands of extremists — enough kindling to store for winter. In such times, there is a refrain, sung in the echo chambers of rhetorical questions — what…

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Home-made Islam

I never knew any women who had been abused by their husbands, except for two. Once I heard my mother talk about them with her friends, but when she saw me, the ladies shooed me away. ‘This is not that kind of beating, children…

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The South Asian quest for Arabness

Maybe you share the blood of a long-gone Mughal prince, a nawab or his obscure relative. Maybe you are distantly related to the Quraysh. Perhaps, tucked inside a wooden heirloom, left behind by dead relatives, lies the beard hair of the Paighambar. How did it…

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