Critical Analysis on Healing, Liberation, and Decolonial Islamic Social Justice
Survivor-led, anti-punitive, and reparation focused. Islamic feminism + critical analysis for collective struggle.
Rage Against the Machine: Toward Humane Systems of Mutual Aid
Humanitarian aid is sold as neutral and benevolent. On the ground it often behaves like surveillance and control. This essay traces how mutual aid sustains survival in Palestine, Sudan, and Congo where empire’s aid abandons communities.
Mutual Aid Requests Roundup – 17 June 2026
My people are on the streets again in Indonesia. Everywhere the state decides certain people’s survival is not a priority, the same infrastructure gap opens. The only thing that fills it is people deciding to fill it for each other. The full list is at the link. Some requests are urgent, some are overdue, and all of them need movement. Show up however possible, financially or by amplifying so someone who can give financially finds the request. Both matter.
It’s Your Girl’s Birthday Month!
I’m going to be officially the same age as my mother when she had me! — I don’t hate doing this, but I don’t like it either. But I have to make this month about me 😤
On Pathologising Structural Criticism
Pathologising structural criticism as anger lets power avoid accountability. This polemical personal-political essay argues for dignity, boundaries, and solidarity without self-abandonment, rejecting respectability politics that demand dispossessed people make harm sound polite before they are recognised as human within every collective struggle.
Orientalism and the Denial of Muslim Political Agency
Western political discourse often treats Muslims as politically illegible, interpreting Muslim societies through secular or liberal frameworks. This critique examines how Orientalism embedded in Western political thought denies Muslim political agency and frames Islamic resistance as a threat rather than a response to imperial violence.
Rethinking God: A Philosophical Examination of Free Will, the Problem of Evil, and Worship
A philosophical exploration of free will, divine hiddenness, and the problem of evil, asking whether God’s omniscience can coexist with human choice.
Is Islam Compatible with Modern Values?
When people ask whether Islam is compatible with modernity, they often assume Western liberalism as history’s endpoint. Islam does not exist to validate modernity; it exists to form an ethical life, challenge power, and expose the violence hidden inside “progress.”
Muslims Parroting Colonial Hasbara
Aww, a Muslim posting an anti-Arab dog-whistle in support of Sudan — otherwise known as colonial hasbara — without naming the actual perpetrators (UAE or RSF)? 💔🥺 Sad, oh no, whatever will you do 💔🥺
It’s not okay.
I don’t excuse Arab supremacy either (f*ck you, Saudi royal), and it doesn’t mean we should leave our critical literacy behind or engage without an ounce of political awareness in our wording.
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