My Absurdly Attractive Doctor & Other Misadventures in Love
I’ve never been one to get along with conventionally attractive people – probably a residual internal bias against the “popular” crowd in grade school that incessantly teased me for my Otherness. As an...
View ArticleNo Apologies Necessary
It was my first time meeting a new friend’s spouse. We’d just finished dinner at our place, and my friend and I were in the kitchen, washing dishes and packing up leftovers. Our husbands chatted at the...
View ArticleA Mosque of One’s Own
It wasn’t the first time I had heard a woman give the azaan. In our Ramadan prayers in small activist circles with radical and queer Muslims, my friend Naaz would call us to prayer, her soft voice...
View ArticleWhere the hell is my chivalry?
Eds. Note: Please welcome comedian, playwright and Love InshAllah anthology contributor Zahra Noorbakhsh! You can find her column, My Infidel Husband, here every fourth Thursday of the month. On my...
View ArticleA Hate Crime Against the Universe
It was a rainy and cold night in Los Angeles. The rarity of the rain added a sheen of intrigue as I drove up the 101 freeway through downtown. I glanced at the overpasses above, nearing the place where...
View ArticleIs my ex an FBI informant?
He was undoubtedly attractive – tall, lean and muscular, caramel colored skin, full lips, high cheekbones that framed his deeply intense hazel eyes. But his black leather jacket, felt fedora, acoustic...
View ArticleWritten in the Stars
Did you know that Love InshAllah and Muslimah Montage host a Twitter book club every month featuring (mostly) Muslim women authors? We recently featured Rafia Zakaria and G. Willow Wilson, and today...
View ArticleGuava Jam: Taste of my mother, taste of home
This month’s Radical Love column is a video essay recorded live at Common Grounds in Santa Ana, California. It begins at 2:48. “This is what it means to be an immigrant living in California, smuggling...
View ArticleLove Letter to Single Sisters
Dear Single Sisters, Lately, I’ve run into a lot of fabulous, beautiful single women who can’t find someone brave enough to show up for them. I am one of those women, just like you. We are beautiful,...
View ArticleMy Iranian Breakup
When I was invited to speak at a conference in Iran, I was asked by the organizers to take as much of my digital footprint down as possible. I took down my first LoveinshAllah.com column “My Infidel...
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