Writer Mariam Hamid confronts the pressures adulting, in what she insists is a purely fictional account.
An Ode To Math: Calculating My Worth
Poet and activist Aisha Ali offers an insightful poetic piece on finding and embracing your individuality and quirks.
Layla Mkhayber: Poetry Anthology
A powerful piece by poet and activist Layla Mkhayber, originally performed at Bankstown Poetry Slam in May 2017. The piece is an exploration of the modern Muslim identity and womanhood in patriarchal society. It looks at what it means to exist in a world that is constantly trying to erase you suppress you or misrepresent you.
I like to think of my people as Stubborn and Patient: Nakba Speech
The Nakba, or ‘catastrophe’ in English is a term of passivity. It talks about a disaster, and indeed what happened in 1948 is a disaster, but really that term doesn’t even scratch the surface.
Desperate Apologies
Exhausted and confused within the current political climate, Muslim youth are aching for direction and simply tired of their supposed ‘leaders' and ‘authority figures' falling head over heels to apologise for anything and everything.
If you’re Muslim, Why are you White?!
I am an average, indistinguishable 19-year-old Australian guy. But without fail, whenever my faith is revealed, it often prompts abrupt surprise.
Netflix and not so Chill: musings of the first world
I groan over the irony, that it is my job that allows me to pay for Netflix, the same Netflix I can’t watch because I have a job. What is life?
Welcome to our Humble Abode!
In today’s socio-political climate it is rare for a day to go by where Muslims and Islam are not talked about, dismantled and criticized.