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

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S V

SV is an educator by day and creative by night.
Poetry

Opening up

They told you to stay Told you, Inna ma’al usri yusra With every hardship, Comes ease Black eyes, Bruised skin, Busted lips, Broken teeth They told you to stay Told you, Inna ma’al usri yusra With every hardship, Comes ease…

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Poetry

Fair and Lovely

Every morning I unscrew the pink and white tube my grandmother stuffed inside my suitcase as I left her home in Delhi. Her words still ringing inside my ears, “don’t forget to use your Fair & Lovely! A girl of…

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Poetry

Mariam

Named after the virgin mother never to know the breadth of a man’s touch the prodigious power of his presence inside, a baby born not of the Lord but by His will. They called her whore, Unchaste, a liar by…

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