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
Recap Tribute to Moms of Gaza
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We recap this month's moving episodes that acknowledge the incredible burden of motherhood during genocide. Insha'Allah, that weight will be relieved from the shoulders and hearts of the Palestinian people, ameen. 🍉🍉
If you've missed these episodes because you've been heartbroken and gaping at your phones over the ongoing horrors that have surpassed our wildest imaginations, we get it. But remember that our humanity relies on our steadfastness to it. We will NEVER normalize what's happening right now. We will NEVER accept it. And we will NEVER stop resisting. ✊🏾
Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stiticher, Amazon Music, or head over to our website and share this episode with someone who doesn't know the difference between "Palestine" and "Pakistan." 🗺
Links:
1. To help transport refugees out of Rafah to Mawasi:
Follow mohamed_elzomar
Follow @oberlin4palestine
Donate: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-getting-out-of-gaza-death
2. To help Fidaa’s cousin reunite with her family, and her other cousins escape Rafah
https://gofund.me/eb72560b
https://gofund.me/63a801df
https://gofund.me/aec0ca32
3. For an intro to the Palestinian struggle
Said, Edward W. The question of Palestine
Khalidi, Rashid. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
Pappe, Ilan. The ethnic cleansing of Palestine
4. For a history of Palestine
Doumani, Beshara. Rediscovering Palestine: merchants and peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700–1900
5. For Nakba deniers
Abdo, Nahla, and Nur Masalha, eds. An oral history of the Palestinian Nakba
Assad, Dawud. Palestine Rising: How I survived the 1948 Deir Yasin Massacre
Khalidi, Walid (ed.), Sharif S. Elmusa, and Muhammad Ali Khalidi. All that remains: The Palestinian villages occupied and depopulated by Israel in 1948
Masalha, Nur. Expulsion of the Palestinians. Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992.
Masalha, Nur. The politics of denial: Israel and the Palestinian refugee problem
6. On resistance
Davis, Angela Y. Freedom is a constant struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the foundations of a movement
Did you know you can send us a text? Feedback, questions, or recommendations welcomed!
1. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
2. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com
3. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
4. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
5. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w
