Vote Your Love
“You know, you can talk to me in Bangla if it makes you more comfortable,” I said quietly. I could sense my passenger was struggling, words stumbling from his tongue. “Oh that’s right,” he responded,...
View ArticleIf God gives me the privilege of giving birth to a daughter
Eds. Note: We are pleased to welcome our newest columnist, Key Ballah! Catch her column – Brown Girl Dreaming – the second Wednesday of every month. You are a woman every part of you reaches toward...
View ArticleRebels by Accident
Deonna Kelli Sayed interviews writer Patricia Dunn, author of the YA novel, Rebels by Accident, in this episode of Love, Inshallah’s author interview podcast. (Track listing: “Ala Warag il Ful” and...
View ArticleEngagement Party Vanilla Cupcakes + Big News + My Love Life
Eds. Note: Please welcome our newest columnist, London-based Nazia, who will be sharing her food column Your Sunny Side Up the third Thursday of every month! It was just a few short months ago we were...
View ArticleSpeaking My Language
“Turn me into droplets of rain so I sprinkle upon your pretty face, Then coat me with dreariness as I wander alone…” – Qarar On the two-hour drive to my parents’ home, I crooned along to one of my...
View ArticleStep One
I am the kind of woman who looks at love from every angle. Who writes about it, puts it in her mouth, holds it up to her nose and rolls it in her hands. I can tell you the way that parted lips feel...
View ArticleFairytale Beginnings
Tiny Love Story “And what do you do?” so many have asked. “I tell stories,” the girl said. One by one they’ve walked away, not understanding the language she speaks. Until one day… “I tell stories,”...
View ArticleLove has no respect for questionnaires
I’ve never been in love but I’m pretty sure finding my perfect match will not be as easy as filling in a compatibility questionnaire. Still, I went ahead and filled in my answers to Don Tillman’s...
View ArticleIntegrity of Heart, Peace of Soul: Finding My Path as an Asexual Muslim
I’m not able to be a “good Muslim wife”. In fact, I’m not able to be in a conventional marriage at all. I’m asexual, aromantic, and sex-averse. Asexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by...
View ArticleForgive me Allah for I have sinned
Please welcome writer Eren Cervantes-Altamirano whose column Flirting with Fate and other Disasters of an Intersectional Muslimah will appear the first Thursday of every month. Her piece below, written...
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