Tag: muslim musings

• 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”