Tag: journalism
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 […]
Just Some Musings
As a 40-um-something ENFP, I internalize the injustices in the world and then idealize the outcomes. This is what drives my blogging and activism whether it’s tweeting or rallies or the #MyJihad campaign. I know I’m just a drop in the ocean, but every storm has its first rain drop. I will never stop being […]
A Poetic Apology
Thank you, Tim Torkildson, for putting one of my articles to poetry. Tim creates poems about trending news topics. His bio in the New York Times can be found here: A Reporter’s Beat, and a Poet’s Muse. Tim Torkildson is a retired circus clown who messes around with words. He is the author of Clown […]