Refusing to Vanish: Muslim Women’s AIDS Activism
Laura McTighe, along with Waheedah Shabazz-El and Faghmeda Miller, tells the story of how two Muslim women have turned their personal struggles into public lives of meaning. Continue Reading →
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Haunted Passages: On Carrying the Past and Envisioning Justice
The second in a series of articles that Laura McTighe will be writing for The Revealer over the next year about issues at the intersection of race and religion. Continue Reading →
The Roots of Racism
Rachel Sladja at Talking Points Memo has a good piece up about the roots of all the recent Shar’iah-is-coming-for-your-freedom hysteria. It’s worth a read for the research TPM did to trace the anti-Muslim commentary in the media over the past decade. But I can’t help but wonder if Islam (and Shari’ah) doesn’t just conveniently fit into the bogeyman placeholder that’s been consistently used by conservatives to manipulate foreign policy. Continue Reading →