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
Muslims in Mainstream News
The first to kick off August’s Muslims in the News series is Laila Alarian, Emmy and Peabody award winning journalist and Executive Producer of the Al Jazeera English investigative documentary program Fault Lines. She takes over the soapbox today, which is not to be missed.
While she’s breaking news on narcotics and Palestine, she’s also dealing with pandemic homeschooling and the emotional struggles working moms, which is ALL moms on our podcast to be clear, deal with, so it should resonate on multiple levels. Gem from the episode: “Perfect is the enemy of the good” (Laila Alarian is #smartmomgoals).
Find out what the mainstream news agenda is and if there is a conspiracy making Muslims look bad in the news. How do we break through that while we break glass ceilings at the same time?
Links:
- Watch Fault Lines: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/fault-lines
- Made in Bangladesh by Laila Alarian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aubn7BKi47g
- Email Laila Alarian: Lailaa@gmail.com
- Palestinian teen shot at funeral of Palestinian teen July 2021: https://www.trtworld.com/middle-east/palestinian-teen-shot-by-israeli-forces-dies-hundreds-attend-funeral-47606
- Jonathan Brown Georgetown faculty (See, we included you, Jonathan!): https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RYoCAAW/jonathan-brown
- Lama Alarian on Sheikh Jarrah for Vice News: https://youtu.be/ZiSRCPiklhI
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