Yasmina Reality
I'm a Writer, Speaker and Muslim Activist. I'm a former Board Member of the #MyJihad Public Education Campaign.
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Peace!
For the Corporate Person by the Corporate Person
Published on the Daily Kos The Melting Pot. That was the name of my third grade social studies book in 1970s Chicago Public School. I remember reading about the first Thanksgiving dinner and all the peace and love that abound and coming home to show my parents the Native American headdress I was wearing made from brightly […]
The System That Taunts
I was never a democrat or a republican. Have always been staunchly against the 2-party system my entire adult life. I’ve always known- even as a young adult and still awakening to the world around me that party labels are man-made cages that work against our very human nature to be curious and self-educated. These […]
Elizabeth Warren – the Republican Plant
Flip Flopping. Dark Money. Stealing the progressive platform to garner a base and destroy the movement. The YouTube Excerpted: “I knew Elizabeth Warren when I was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She was a right-wing Reaganite. And the University of Pennsylvania had the most progressive law school curriculum in the country. And this […]
Dear Pete, Sorry for the “Nostalgia.”
I shared this post on the Daily Kos, 2/26/2020. The Democratic Debate stage in South Carolina last night displayed desperation from establishment candidates reluctant to accept that Bernie Sanders is the front runner in the primaries. I didn’t hear policy from most candidates, just a frenzied poking-away at Bernie as if his popularity could be chipped away […]
There was No Place for a Muslim Journalist in 1980s America
I shared this piece at the Daily Kos: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/17/1912291/-There-was-No-Place-for-a-Muslim-Journalist-in-1980s-America?_=2020-01-17T15:56:33.864-08:00 I was a Muslim American kid of the seventies with a writing bent that delighted my third grade Chicago Public School teacher, Miss Hale. A teen of the eighties who penned sappy poetry and wrote for my high school yearbook, people asked, “What do you want […]
Open Invitation to Jamie Cygielman CEO, American Girl Doll – Vlog Letter
Dear Jamie Cygielman, CEO of American Girl Doll. I am inviting you to meet with me, doll collector, focus group administrator, and Muslim American advocate of diversity and inclusion issues. I invite you to explore a day in the life of a Muslim American Girl in America; and, I ask you to create a Muslim […]
9-11-2019
Today, I woke up with that oppressed, obligatory feeling that I’m somehow supposed to feel responsible for the events of this day, 2001. I was 8 months pregnant with my first child and getting ready to go on a sales call when I watched the planes hit the towers on WGN. I remember clutching my […]
Mass Graves – Crimes Against Humanity in Srebrenica
The following is an account from Julie Smith {not her real name} on what she witnessed working with U.S. forces stationed in Bosnia after the genocide carried out against Bosnian men by Serb forces, led by convicted war criminal, Ratko Mladic. Mladic is the name at the helm, but hundreds of Serb criminals participated and […]
Independence Day – for some of us – 2019
🇺🇸 It’s easy for people of any nationality to drift into a hypnotic sense of patriotism on a day like today. We have much to be thankful for and proud of — this is our homeland — but I will not gaslight myself either amidst the hoopla of the free rock concerts and fireworks displays. […]
You Are Enough – Writing Contest by Positive Writer
I am participating in the Writing Contest: You Are Enough, hosted by Positive Writer. Dare to Be Your Authentic Self by: Yasmina Blackburn I sat down to write the most important piece of writing in my lifetime. Invited for work I was doing for a not-for-profit organization in my hometown of Chicago called MyJihad, I […]