07 Jul

violent-darts:

yuenchien:

erinbowbooks:

thechanelmuse:

Hazel Scott playing two pianos at the same damn time with ease

Hazel Scott was a musical sorcerer and a civil rights hero.   She:

  •  was admitted to Julliard at 8.  
  • was performing in top venues by 16.  
  • pioneered “swinging the classics” and made the equivalent of a million dollars a year doing it.  
  • was the first person of color to have their own national TV show.  
  • went to Hollywood but refused to be cast as a “singing maid.”  Demanded and got control over her casting, her wardrobe, and how footage featuring her was cut.  
  • refused to perform in segregated venues and led charges for integration in several northern cities, notably Spokane.  

She was brought down by the House Committee on Unamerican Activities, and has been largely forgotten.  But she was a sorcerer, and a hero.  

@theladyragnell

Let’s un-forget her.

Incredible!

(via thatsthat24)

29 Jun

algxrianos:

A friend and I have started a nonprofit organization called “Smile for School” that provides kids in Algeria, Jordan and other countries soon inshallah with supplies, resources, and the inspiration to make the most out of their education.

If you would like to learn more about Smile for School or would even like to donate, please visit smileforschool.org or FOLLOW our instagram @ smileforschool

Alhamdulilah we’ve already been able to help 37 families, most in Oran, and we plan on helping many more inshallah.

The pictures above are just a few of kids we’ve helped and you can see how much it means to them.

26 Jun

A monk asked the devil, "Which characteristic of the son of Adam is most helpful to you against them?” The devil told the monk, “A hot temper. If a person is hot tempered, then we play with him like children play with a ball.

– Michael Muhammad Knight in Journey to the End of Islam
22 Jun

whereisthehaya:

awkwardmuslim:

Help protect young girls from being kidnapped and forced into prostitution

The Sunderbans in West Bengal, India, consists of approximately 3,300 Muslim villages. Almost 50% of the population is considered to be living below the poverty line.

The desperate poverty has seen a custom emerge where young girls are married off to wealthy elderly men from neighbouring states.

More dismaying still, a significant proportion of girls are being forced into prostitution. An underground industry has emerged where wealthy visitors are exploiting young impoverished girls.

‘Whoever has a female (daughter) and doesn’t bury her alive, nor scorn her, nor give preference to his son over her, Allah will admit him to Paradise.’ (Sunan Abi Dawud)

The problem of exploitation motivated Ummah Welfare Trust to begin the construction of a new girls hostel here that would support potential victims.

Once complete, it will have residential quarters, class rooms, a canteen, a medical clinic, a masjid and a madrasah. Approximately 300 girls will be looked after inshaAllah.

Ummah Welfare Trust needs your support to help complete the construction of this noble project. Sadaqah and Lillah can be given.

May Allah give us the taufiq to follow in the footsteps of our predecessors, who would stand up for the honour of just one Muslim woman. Protect our daughters and donate for this academy today.

Please help by sharing this video and donating via: https://www.justgiving.com/girlsacademy

In India cows are valued more than young girls. In the last few days alone there have been young girls who have been gang raped in broad daylight.


We need to collectively put a stop to these people.

This video alone breaks my heart, and everyone needs to watch this…

(Source: awkwardmuslim.com, via awkwardmuslim)

19 Jun
the-movemnt: “Nabra Hassanen’s death wraps up an especially violent Ramadan for Muslim teenage girls• Nabra Hassanen didn’t have the chance to spend Father’s Day with the man who raised her. Hassanen’s remains were found in a pond in Sterling,...

the-movemnt:

Nabra Hassanen’s death wraps up an especially violent Ramadan for Muslim teenage girls

  • Nabra Hassanen didn’t have the chance to spend Father’s Day with the man who raised her. Hassanen’s remains were found in a pond in Sterling, Virginia, the Washington Post reported. She was 17.
  • Hassanen and her teenage friends — all wearing abayas, or traditional long dresses — were walking back after their pre-fast Ramadan meal at an IHOP early Sunday morning when they were accosted by a man in a red car. 
  • The man, armed with with a metal baseball bat, then got out of the car. The girls all ran back to the All Dulles Area Muslim Society mosque in Sterling where they were making their nightly Ramadan prayers. 
  • But Hassanen fell behind. She was beaten to death with the bat. 
  • The Fairfax Police Department identified the man as Darwin Martinez Torres, and he was charged with murder. 
  • The police said they had come across no indication that Hassanen’s death was motivated by her race or religion.
  • Recently, there have been a string of reported assaults and harassments in which Muslim teenage girls have been targeted. Read more (6/19/17)

(via the-movemnt-deactivated20170912)

18 Jun

emoxidantz:

From a biological standpoint, I am male. It’s something that has always been and always will be. No amount of hormones or self identification or validation is going to change that circumstance, and any attempt by me to ignore that scientific reality is purely out of ignorance. To believe the idea that I have always been female, or that I have been raised female in secret, even while being socialized and treated as male, would be to ignore the struggles of actual females who have been actively dealing with sex based oppression their entire lives. I refuse to undermine their struggles, or to think that in being trans I’m given some sort of ‘pass’ into the female world. The malice that is directed against me is not the same malice that’s directed against them. The struggles that I experience are not the struggles that they experience. While in some respects we do share similar problems, it should not be deemed outlandish or transmisogynistic that females would like a space for themselves, where they can share their experiences of being socialized female in society. It is not my place to speak for them. It is not my place to speak over them. And unless you are female, it’s not your place either. 

(via pro-uterus-agenda)

16 Jun

Casablanca Calling

muslimwomeninhistory:

Casablanca Calling is an intimate portrait of three Morchidat, female religious preachers, based in Morocco.

Their stories illustrate a society in transition and a mission to educate a nation, and they preach the virtues of tolerance, compassion and equality.

Karima is young and outgoing; in the capital Rabat, she relishes working with young people. Bouchra is a powerhouse of energy working in Larache in the north, where she is determined to change the culture of misogyny and champion girls’ education. Hannane is warm and compassionate, working to explain the true teachings of Islam and expose superstition, misinterpretation and blind adherence to tradition.

In this film, we follow these three Morchidat as they work in mosques, schools and prisons around the country.