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
Replay: Visceral News Reactions
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Our Muslim Moms and the News Series this month is an offshoot of our series of a similar bent from 2021. Sadly we aren't saying anything different this time around.
In this replay, Zaiba and Uzma cite past big headlines that affected their physical and mental safety. Ask yourself how news coverage would have been different, and HAS been different for non-Muslims suspects. When do Muslim Americans hold their collective breaths and why? And how is it all the same now?
Our expectations from media coverage must be higher and the biases of news coverage, because it endangers affected people, must be held to account., News coverage, and now social media coverage, result in perpetual Muslim grief. But only one of them is trying to undo oppression, while the other is a tool of it. Let's work together to prevent and punish dissemination of Islamophobic news coverage.
There’s slamming of our hands on the table so watch your ears. We apologize! Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, or head to our website to listen.
Links:
- Book mentions by Uzma: Mornings in Jenin and The Blue Between Sky and Water by Susan Abulhawa
- Book mention by Zaiba: City of Brass by S.A. Chakroborty
- San Bernadino shooter coverage: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/04/458502872/frenzied-media-pour-over-home-of-san-bernardino-killers-during-live-broadcasts
- John Ritzheimer and the Phoenix Masjid Free Speech Rally: https://youtu.be/55b3-jBqztU
- Ahmed Mohammad and the atomic clock: https://www.cnn.com/2015/09/16/us/texas-student-ahmed-muslim-clock-bomb/index.html
- Las Vegas shooting coverage: https://www.cnn.com/2015/09/16/us/texas-student-ahmed-muslim-clock-bomb/index.html
- Phoenix doctor fired for speaking out: https://www.newsweek.com/thirst-kill-us-pediatric-doctor-fired-accusing-israel-cannibalism-1604992
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