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
Si se puede habeebti
Hazel Gomez of Muslim Power Building Project joins us today to talk about Latinos at the forefront of social justice in America. As leaders in the movement for change, Latina Muslims especially are culturally endowed with assets and experiences that lend them towards success. She’s a great reminder of history and how Muslims have always been a part of social and political change in America, such that no movement is for any one people; we are all touched by the othering of any community. Her anecdotes are sure to tear your hearts out and make you want to fight the good fight.
Find out how to get active and effective, the necessity of allyship for and by Muslims from all backgrounds, as well as current projects Hazel is organizing both locally and nationally, WITH a bun in the oven masha’Allah. The work doesn’t stop, y’all. We aren’t a complacent people per our faith tradition, and the time to get educated and involved is always. Si se puede habeebti (yes we can [Spanish] my love [Arabic]).
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Links:
- Blue Wolf mass surveillance of Palestinians and civilian databasing in Israel: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20211116-from-pegasus-to-blue-wolf-how-israels-security-experiment-in-palestine-went-global/
- For more information about the Muslim Power Building Project: https://www.lavoice.org/muslim-power-building-project/
- Dream of Detroit: https://dreamofdetroit.org/
- Believers Bail Out: https://believersbailout.org/
- 21 Faith Leaders to Watch in 2021: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/21-faith-leaders-watch-2021/
- History of the Prophets Volume I Suzanne Haneef: https://kitaabun.com/shopping3/history-prophets-islam-suzanne-haneef-p-1081.html
- Email Hazel: hazel.l.gomez@gmail.com
- Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
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