Archive for July, 2015
I’m a new Contributor to The Good Men Project
I’ve been wanting to flush out my feelings about the feminist movement for awhile now. Being a woman, I am pro-woman obviously. But I am also a woman that is pro-man. It has taken me awhile to observe and digest the various social constructs of women’s activism and the modern ramifications of pro-women movements. There […]
Eid Mubarak 2015
It’s nearly 10:30 Chicago time. I’m sitting in my kitchen waiting for the banitza to come out of the oven. I texted “mabrook” to my brother for completing another perfect month of fasting. I told my son he cannot open the huge bag of lollipops that the kids will get tomorrow. And my kids are […]
My Reflections on Srebrenica
20 years ago, 8,000 Bosnian men and boys were massacred by Serb forces in the worst genocidal event since 1945. In 1945, Serb forces massacred Croatian soldiers that included my grandfather, leaving my mother an orphaned refugee before she even left her mother’s womb. Growing up “Yugoslavian,” it was very clear how the maternal elders […]