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Salma Hussain Recommends Twelve Canadian Writers Creating Stories Around Muslim Characters
“If dark academia is meant to be about the darkness of academia…what is darker than structural or institutional racism?”
“It has been a pleasure to craft…an embrace of warmth and acceptance around a young brown girl”
“I hope that young queer Muslim readers understand that you’re perfect just the way you feel”
“As an adult they seem incongruous, but as children we knew seemingly opposite things can co-exist…as long as we made the space”
“Both [my] characters soon come to realise that, like everything that ascends, they must come down eventually where their problems still remain”
“As a writer, I believe it’s extremely important to try and create, as much as possible, diverse stories about a community”
“I wanted a brown kid at the center, the protagonist of her own life, abolishing the misconstructions society has of Desis and Muslims”
“I wanted to explore Aafiyah’s denial, acceptance, and guilt…but also show that she is much more than a bad habit”
“Faith is not a static thing; it may ebb and flow, and I attempted to illustrate the same fluctuations”
“I honestly don’t think it’s possible for me to write a story that doesn’t have a healthy dose of family drama”
“The shape of the trauma may be different, but the taste of tears on their tongue is the same”
“An Urdu phrase I loved including was ‘aaj jaane ki zidd na karo,’ which…loosely translates to: today, don’t insist on leaving”
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