Issue 7 of the #WomenInIslam Journal is almost here. At its heart, the main question is: what does male guardianship mean in practice? Stories and reflections explore how relationships and authority shape, and sometimes limit, women’s choices and lives. #Staytuned
And then maybe we can have a discussion about the fetishization of colloquialisms and postcolonial work - something clearly taken to such an extreme that these people can no longer actually recognize good writing. Different conversation.
Be right back, just going to go and drain a village's water supply in South East Asia to win the next Commonwealth Short Story prize #writinglife#writingcommunity
Immigrant workers in NYC face threats of deportation when seeking compensation for wage theft and injuries, as employers weaponize immigration enforcement. https://t.co/Pfzyz9e33t
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@ssk010 Very outdated! Doesn’t take into account how families work these days or diff circumstances eg sibling covering younger sibling edu (not anak).
Welcome to Shre’s story time about The Horrors and how we can help because…
I don’t like selective empathy and I think a lot of you don’t either
(There’s an AI disclaimer because I used the remove background tool on Canva tq)
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TLDR : met a 23 yo Rohingyan refugee in Langkawi whose pay is being withheld by his employer and is abused in the workplace. He also has a wife (undocumented due to bureaucracies) who is 3 weeks away from giving birth to their first child.
My heart broke listening to his story
@tashny Malaysian hospitality is my favourite thing about us. If we can support those who are subject to genocide hundreds of thousands of kilometres away, we can do the same for those from neighbouring shores.
We’ve already made 54% of our target! Please donate and boost if you can! 🩵
Spent the entire afternoon making a piece of jewellery I’ve wanted for, ooh, 25 years now? Thank you @RobinJarvis1963 for the indelible mark on my childhood 🐁🔱🌊🐍
Ps. Only realised after firing that the mouse is looking the wrong way!