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

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Salma

Salma is an award-winning and well-known name to readers of contemporary Tamil literature. She is the author of several volumes of poetry, she’s also been a politician, village leader and on the state social welfare board.
Poetry

Equanimity

with a day comes another day, one misery placed against another misery, a betrayal and then the second betrayal,           from one hurt inches out the other hurt thus my commeasuring life: when it hits shame nips and gnaws at me…

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Poetry

Thank you, marijuana

Didn’t know this myself until by smoking marijuana I’d entered    into it From my body hewed from   a man’s rib, a wing’ll hatch without me even knowing it– in the throat swords with their sharpness sunk in the…

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