Mommying While Muslim
Mommying While Muslim is a one of a kind podcast where American Muslim moms share their experiences to raise second generation kids. Having experienced both pre and post 9/11 America, they're acutely aware of the unique challenges their families face on top of the regular messes that all moms share. Mommying While Muslim is a space to take back their stories, and tell those no one will air on the news or portray fully or fairly in the media. Host Uzma Jafri is mom first, careerwoman second, and global citizen at heart. She meets taboo topics head on because she wasn't allowed to do it growing up, not at home or at school and work. Her aim is to better her immediate household, community, and her momsisterhood the world over by telling the truths sometimes people don't want to face or to hear. Not everyone has these privileges, and she is eager to learn as well as share her own experiences. Always looking to give back, MWM finds women and families who need a mic because no one needs a voice; they just need an opportunity to speak. Besides tough social issues, MWM tackles political ones because when laws affect kids, we're coming for them as well as the ones who make them! There's no lane that doesn't get taken here. Along the way, MWM recruits momallies for Muslim Americans who have been inordinately targeted for the last 20 years. True moms know that ALL our children deserve to be safe, loved, and happy, and we bust every yellow brick on the Islamaphobic road to make sure they all are. If you like good trouble, this one's for you!
Mommying While Muslim
The Case Against Texas and Anti-BDS
Do moms really need to be on the front lines of protecting free speech? Are moms responsible for organizing protests and being patriots? No, we aren't talking about backtalk today.
It's all about our civil liberties and one wonder mom's fight against Texas legislation that threatens them. We will discuss our roles and responsibilities in protecting our freedoms so that our kids and country benefit.
Links:
1) Background on Bahia's case (short summary) https://www.npr.org/2018/12/26/680129742/texas-school-employee-suing-over-pro-israel-oath
2) Background on case https://www.google.com/amp/s/beta.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/18/she-lost-her-school-job-after-refusing-sign-pro-israel-pledge-now-shes-filing-lawsuit/%3FoutputType%3Damp
3) Background on case https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.texastribune.org/2019/04/26/Texas-bahia-amawi-speaks-out-against-anti-israel-boycott/amp/
4) Bahia's big win! https://theintercept.com/2019/04/26/in-case-brought-by-school-speech-pathologist-texas-federal-court-becomes-the-third-to-strike-down-pro-israel-oath-as-unconstitutional/
5) Bahia's letter to the state https://cairaustin.org/an-open-letter-from-bahia-amawi-on-texas-house-bill-793/
6) Intercept video summary of the case https://youtu.be/f_j5pNTGnkM
7) Find your local CAIR chapter and support! https://www.cair.com/
8) Find your state and see if it has illegal and subversive legislation threatening your free speech and protest https://palestinelegal.org/righttoboycott
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