sister-hood is an award-winning digital magazine spotlighting the diverse voices of women of Muslim heritage.
There are times When I’m browsing through the market And I am struck By my Womanness It sneaks around the corner Maybe I’ll see it In the eyes of a stranger lingering too long In the gruff holler of a…
How does it feel to be forced in this way? How can anyone know? Unless she is the one upon whom it is forced She looks down at the drop and wonders… She did used to dream of her prince…
For those of us who ever feel conflicted about the United Nations, the past month has been an exercise in managing absurd cognitive dissonance. First, on October 21 2016, the United Nations announced that the 1940s comic book heroine, Wonder…
I invite my readers to join me as I travel the thorny road travelled…by women of my generation who sought knowledge, dignity and self-respect. The above sentence appears in the Prologue of Anbara Salam Khalidi’s memoirs. Her autobiography concisely retells…
I woke up this morning feeling the weight of the world harmonizing with gravity and pulling me closer to my bed. I turned over and threw myself to the ground. I scrambled up to my feet with the help of…
I never thought I’d find myself appealing to Playboy magazine to defend women’s dignity by asking them to rethink their depiction of ‘modesty’. But then again, we live in a bizarre time when a woman like myself -a feminist from a…
“My beloved daughter, this one’s for you. Your actions shall be questioned, whatever you may do They’d tell you what to wear, how to talk and how to eat. How to walk, how to sleep also how to greet “What…
On Sunday 28 August, Isra Zariat, writing for the the Norwegian broadcasting website NRK, revealed that Norwegian doctors are conducting ‘virginity tests’ on behalf of concerned Muslim parents. Doctor Therese Kristina Utgård revealed that her website Klara Klok answers questions…
Women and children are severely affected by instability and war, being physically and mentally vulnerable to the brutalities of wars and hardship of displacement. Millions of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), mostly from the tribal belt of North Waziristan, are living…
You say you have ‘zero tolerance for violence against girls’, ‘Zero tolerance for child marriage’, ‘Zero tolerance for statutory rape’, ‘Zero tolerance for child abuse’. Zero. Tolerance. In your definition of ‘zero tolerance’ do my Muslim daughters exist?…
Whether you call it a tradition or custom, but giving wedding gifts also known as dowry to daughters has been followed, consciously or unconsciously since ages unknown within certain cultures. From one perspective, these gifts are a good-will gesture from…
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