Sep 7, 2022An Open Letter To My Daughter’s 3rd-Grade Teacher Mr. Ally-of-Another-MinorityLet me try to put this in your words. Please stop trying to fix my Muslim daughter. When you tell my child gender is a choice, you are essentially annihilating a millennia of maternal tradition passed down womb to womb — mother to daughter — decimating our matriarchy and divorcing…Parenting3 min readParenting3 min read
Sep 24, 2020Member-onlyWhy I Love “The Incredible Book Eating Boy” And How it Taught my Kids About MisinformationI serendipitously stumbled upon this picture book by Oliver Jeffers a few years ago when my five year old picked it out of a pile of books in the library. She spied an odd bite mark on the back cover and insisted I read it to her. With little hope…Childrens Books3 min readChildrens Books3 min read
May 15, 2020Member-onlyStay Home— For you, my fantastically resilient daughters who turn nightmares into dreams They said to me stay home, The streets you shall not roam. They said to me be still, So others won’t be ill. So here I sit, home, still and slow. But inside I feel something grow, Beyond…Childrens Stories1 min readChildrens Stories1 min read
Oct 18, 2019Member-onlyBe Youyou say “be You” but you mean “be Me too” because my You negates your Me (or so you say) you call it tolerance and it is dominance until my You is driven out out of the narrative of Us.Poem1 min readPoem1 min read
Aug 2, 2019Member-onlyFall Not SpringFall came as Spring, Blooming into crimson tides, Budding tears, That haven’t dried, And the castaways sprout, Across terrestrial fields, Until the ripe become raw. To my people I say, “I am from you but not of you,” So when you called I said wait, And from far I felt…Syria1 min readSyria1 min read
Jul 30, 2019Member-onlyFaith of the FaithlessThe schizophrenia of my skepticism, Birthed from the empiricism of my existence. A convoluted contradiction, Guised in adornments of reified reason. The battles of mind beget the casualties of heart, A systematic destruction of my soul. War waged upon The Necessary, From Nothing, Everything! From Nothing, Everything! From Nothing, Everything! …Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
Jul 30, 2019Member-onlyarriveI thought it was a race, And I wanted to be first, But how do you arrive, To an end beyond a place, A place beyond the race?Poem1 min readPoem1 min read
Jul 20, 2019Member-onlyOff-WhitePainted in the complex complexion of ambiguity, I am the forgotten middle. The boxes ask. The boxes determine. Strategize: identify or assimilate? Preferred or Discriminated? African: check. Black: inapplicable. Asian: check. Minority: ineligible. White: check. Privilege: incompatible. Ethnically: multifarious. Ethnically: condemned. Racially one. Still, Not white enough. Not brown enough. …Racism1 min readRacism1 min read
Jul 19, 2019Member-onlyflashbut then it hits me crashing waves of lingering lucidity visions of pure perception glimpses of true Reality grasp it, taste it sweet salient of Truth a symphony of cosmic simplicity and then like flitters of fire fading into whispers of devastating allurements but I hold on I hold on …Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
Jul 17, 2019Member-onlyfinal dockas the ticks of the clock haul the ships to their dock and all that is said and all that is done alight on the shores of remorse and all that was not and all that is not adrift perilously unmoored those embarked fail to see the coming swells…Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
