{"id":16915,"date":"2020-04-21T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/?p=16915"},"modified":"2020-05-12T14:09:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T19:09:01","slug":"dearborn-girl-explores-the-intersection-of-being-muslim-and-feminist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2020\/04\/21\/dearborn-girl-explores-the-intersection-of-being-muslim-and-feminist\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Dearborn Girl&#8217; Explores the Intersection of Being Muslim and Feminist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>a podcast i&#8217;d love to check out.<br \/><br \/>Rima Fadallah: Yasmeen and I talk about this a lot and I\u2019m just going to go ahead and call out that when we talk about mainstream feminism we\u2019re talking about white feminism. I didn\u2019t understand intersectionality until I went to school away from Dearborn and I heard what a lot of the conversations were like in women\u2019s spaces, specifically white-dominated women\u2019s spaces. I think one of the biggest things that\u2019s frustrating me right now is that we don\u2019t accept differences in values. Mainstream feminism tries to push an agenda of liberalism that looks and sounds and acts a certain way. I remember in college I heard a comment from a girl that I\u2019ll never forget. She said, \u201cIf you abstain from sex, you\u2019re basically oppressed and you\u2019re internalizing your own oppression.\u201d I\u2019m not saying that\u2019s all white feminism stands for, but there\u2019s this perception of the Arab or Muslim woman who wants to be more modest as oppressed or part of a male-dominated space. More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hourdetroit.com\/community\/dearborn-girl-muslim-feminist-podcast\/?fbclid=IwAR10Qb9Z1P9SSS5iFQQvVGDwPHSSIdXx9a43kENbKMsYpo0LIbl6k-OO0cQ\">here<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a podcast i&#8217;d love to check out. Rima Fadallah: Yasmeen and I talk about this a lot and I\u2019m just going to go ahead and call out that when we talk about mainstream feminism we\u2019re talking about white feminism. I didn\u2019t understand intersectionality until I went to school away from Dearborn and I heard what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2020\/04\/21\/dearborn-girl-explores-the-intersection-of-being-muslim-and-feminist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Dearborn Girl&#8217; Explores the Intersection of Being Muslim and Feminist<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16916,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16915\/revisions\/16916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}