Congratulations, Democratic party. You’ve invented a new kind of stupid. The kind of stupid where you take your loyal, excited, diverse demographic and sideline them. The kind of stupid where you take one of your freshman Congresswomen, Ilhan Omar, and take turns slamming her in a way that reeks of hypocrisy. But she’s more than …
Month: March 2019
I get it. You see the headline and you balk. You get uncomfortable and you back away, steering towards safer topics that we can all agree on – like how Trump sucks, or how Captain Marvel was a truly epic movie. Because really, in an America that is fiercely defensive of Israel, how do we …
New York is taking its strongest stance on abortion in history. Its latest reproductive health law, Senate Bill S2796, sends a clear message to all of America: no matter what the White House has to say on abortion, the right to choice will always be guaranteed in the Empire State. And this new precedent has …
What’s that on your head? Veiled women get a bad rep. The vast majority of Muslim women who do wear the headscarf – known in Arabic as the hijab – are not, in fact, oppressed. Yet few people realize this, because mass media often portrays an opposite version of a hijabi (i.e. hijab-wearing) woman’s reality. …