sister-hood is an award-winning digital magazine spotlighting the diverse voices of women of Muslim heritage.
From apartheid to sexism When I was young, I marveled at people who veered from the path laid out for them, and took the road less traveled. I imagined that they had confronted the proverbial fork-in-the-road moment, where they were…
For as long as I can remember, every time ISIS, Al-Qaeda or any other Islamic terrorist group entered the conversation, I have felt the urge to immediately say “yeah, but those people don’t really represent Islam!”. This was a reflex….
#NotYourBride In high school a white Norwegian friend of mine and I used to talk about Jane Austen. Her favourite novel was Pride and Prejudice. She would romanticise the old days. I, on the other hand, would get annoyed because…
What is it like living in Saudi Arabia? The title sounds like a Buzzfeed article singing the praises of the Gulf country’s oil riches, its luxurious lifestyle, the ‘comforting’ gender segregation, and being driven around everywhere like the ‘queen’ that…
I’m currently 19 years old, hovering in the strange place between knowing that my childhood is over, but hesitant to accept adulthood. When I was younger I used to think of the future and revel in the knowledge that I…
Being both Black and Muslim is a beautiful and complicated existence. Being a woman on top of that, is an added insight into the world that I personally treasure. Yet it is an existence of being under constant social pressure…
Baba (my father) and I had an extremely volatile relationship during my adolescence. When he and momma divorced, I was young enough to understand the surface why, but not psychologically mature enough to disassociate myself from the divorce itself. At…
Once again, a series of tragic massacres have rocked our world. First, it was 49 people, killed in a gay nightclub in Orlando. This mass murderer was Omar Mateen. The FBI says that Mateen was ‘undoubtedly radicalized.’ In Nice, a…
Until two weeks ago, mentions of Qandeel Baloch on my social media were accompanied by memes and jokes. Posts ridiculing her accent, laughing at her, judging her – but through it all, consuming her. Last week, I woke up to…
On Saturday morning I awoke to the sad news that Qandeel Baloch, the Pakistani social media sensation,had been killed by her brother, Wasim. He had strangled her to death at the family home in Multan, Pakistan. Qandeel’s raunchy online antics…
the women in my family taught me how to love women by not loving men no, they are not lesbians or queer or whatever labels you stick onto me, but they refused …
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