ya allah only you are the all seeing and all knowing; revoke the power of the panopticon from those who wish us dead.
Author: Vanessa Taylor
Worth of the Cool
The Cachet and Co-optation of Black Muslim Style
Black runners on Ahmaud Arbery and the unique treachery of a simple jog
“Many Black people have to navigate seemingly innocuous hobbies or activities with a deep awareness that they may feel threatening to someone.”
Not Your Crisis Daddy
Is memeing politicians critique—or PR?
Closed Mosques Mean Many Are Going Without Food During Ramadan
“There’s no longer those places of food.”
Lose Yourself
The complex, comforting allure of not being seen.
Leaving No Others Behind This Ramadan
A bail fund to help free detained Muslims finds new urgency as Covid-19 spreads rapidly through prisons and jails.
How Muslims are digitally celebrating Ramadan under quarantine and protecting themselves from Zoom-bombers
As Ramadan begins with the new moon later this week, Muslims all around the world are trying to work out how to maintain the many cherished rituals of Islam’s holiest month.
Black Muslims in US fear they could be ‘disproportionately impacted’ by coronavirus
The community is often rendered invisible within the larger Black and Muslim populations.
Federal inmates will spend the next 14 days in their cells
The solution to coronavirus cannot be simply falling back on a practice that is already known to cause significant damage to incarcerated people’s mental and physical health.