‘Can You Really Be a Queer Muslim?’: Intersectionality and the Complexity of Identity

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What’s Up With Wakanda?
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What’s Up With Wakanda?

Undoubtedly, the world needed to reimagine Africa through a filter that wasn’t NGO lenses trained on suffering children, or wildlife documentaries revelling in our emptiness.  But we don’t live in a what if. The reality of Africa is not utopic. And that’s okay.

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Why I No Longer Want To Be The ‘Strong Black Woman’
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Why I No Longer Want To Be The ‘Strong Black Woman’

For a lot of my life, I tried my best to twist myself into the shape of a ‘strong black woman’. No matter what was going on in my life, I had to be the ‘strong black woman’. While I now know that I am in fact a strong woman, I know too that this was a mask I wore because I had no clue of who I actually was.

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