What a great conversation. Perilous Intimacies keeps pushing us into new questions, new tensions, new starting points. The last time I felt this animated by a book was Saba Mahmood’s A Minority Report. Now available through Folio; and absolutely worth your time.
One thing I’ve realised after speaking to so many married women, I’m actually not ready for marriage and I wont do well in a marriage at alllll, cos wdym most women bite their tongue and feel like 💩 half of the time 😭 sorry but it doesn’t sound worth it anymore.
I'll worry about that when Ahmedis start burning down my places of worship, desecrating my relatives' graves, killing my neighbours for saying salaam and arresting me for serving biryani.
Until then your "genuine curiosity" is a bad faith argument.
Why is it that so many Pakistani women who openly disregard Islamic guidelines themselves are the first to judge and shame other Muslim women?
It’s ironic how some feel entitled to preach modesty or religiosity when they pick and choose what suits them..