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The binary balance?

We’ve all heard that there is a need for balance in the world, a need for dichotomy. A need to oppose things that we see as contradictory to achieve the perfect equilibrium. Seeing the world as balanced by opposites makes it seem so vulnerable. There is sun and there is rain There is day and […]

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How Angela Davis Changed My Life

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept”. ~ Angela Davis Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis is the first book on intersectional feminism that I have ever read. As the title promises, the book describes the historical development of the feminist movement in […]

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Financial Feminism

We will never solve the feminisation of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.”  – Gloria Steinem Imagine if women collectively had more money. What might change?  What are some of the changes you’d expect to see if we achieved economic gender equality tomorrow? What might your daily life look like? What thoughts and […]

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The Strike of Mecca

“The Strike of Mecca” A short story from the series of 1001 nights of “NOT your Scheherazade” by Samar Zughool. In 2011, I went to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, with my mother.  I did not go there for answers; I already had them, but I went in my search for closure! For any kind of closure! […]

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on following a cow through amsterdam

night-sky-colored eyes encircled  by stalks of dancing eyelashes  she stares at passersby in the street speaking a language without words herd of willing humans at her hooves she leads us in silence prancing  past admiration and disapproval alike  explaining how animals are individuals too and how the earth is queer as hell  did you know […]

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Reclaiming the Witch

I recently attended a virtual lecture from the scholar and feminist activist Silvia Federici about her book Caliban and the Witch. Professor Federici researched the European witch hunts because she wanted to understand the causes of the particular forms of discrimination that women have suffered in capitalist society and how they could be traced back […]