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Watching We Are Lady Parts, I wast trying to decide if I was Saira--a glorious and combustible concoction of tattoos, rage, and fuck you’s--or Ayesha--a glorious cocktail of eyeliner, rage, and fuck you’s.
I decided I did not have to choose because each of my life stages found herself reflected in We Are Lady Parts: be it my days in hijab, my foul mouth, or my tattoos and eyeliner. I did keep yelling "Where was this show 30 years ago?!" feministgiant.com/p/too-loud-swe… #WeAreLadyParts
One of the reasons I started FEMINIST GIANT was so that I can write what I want--essays about Muslim women punks as well as about being childfree by choice--and how I want--fuck you's and all!

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New Essay:

Too Loud, Swears Too Much, Goes Too Far

The emancipatory power of We Are Lady Parts

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Men--and white people-- are thankfully incidental to We Are Lady Parts. They are the supporting cast--eye candy, lovers or husbands, irritants or racists.

And what a relief Too often, we are not heard above the noise our men and white people make--noise they make often about us.

And too often, we exhaust our voices defending our men from what white people say about them. Text: To be a Muslim woman in the so-called West, is to stan
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Men--and white people-- are thankfully incidental to We Are Lady Parts. They are the supporting cast--eye candy, lovers or husbands, irritants or racists. #WeAreLadyParts
And what a relief because ...too often, we are not heard above the noise our men and white people make--noise they make often about us.

And too often, we exhaust our voices defending our men from what white people say about them. feministgiant.com/p/too-loud-swe… #WeAreLadyParts
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To have had a TV show like We Are Lady Parts while I was in my 20s, would have freed up so much of my cosmic energy, I might have truly taken over the world. My new words 👇🏽#WeAreLadyParts
To be a Muslim woman is to stand in the middle of a see-saw, saying fuck you to racist Islamophobes on one hand and misogynists in the community on the other, all while trying not to fall off.

#WeAreLadyParts has jumped off the see-saw altogether. feministgiant.com/p/too-loud-swe…
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