by heartwg@gmail.com | Sep 16, 2016 | Building Safer Communities, Sexual and Reproductive Health
One of HEART’s activities is to help design research studies to collect data specific to Muslim communities. Our hope is to be able to have a deeper understanding of the reproductive needs of Muslim women in order to be able to offer: more targeted and enhance...
by heartwg@gmail.com | Sep 16, 2016 | Building Safer Communities, Self and Community Care
by Alia Azmat This Ramadan I made a pact with myself, to take care of myself. I stretched myself, I have been challenging myself, but perhaps not in the way you might imagine. I have not attended taraweeh every night. A few days I did not wake up to reap the rewards...
by heartwg@gmail.com | Jun 24, 2016 | Building Safer Communities
By Amanda Quraishi In the face of the kind of tragic loss of human life such as the massacre that took place in Orlando last weekend, I am increasingly frustrated by the immediate response by groups to reject, deflect, and remove any and all nuance from the...
by heartwg@gmail.com | Jun 24, 2016 | Building Safer Communities, Sexual Violence
by Nadiah Mohajir In January 2015, a Stanford undergraduate student sexually assaulted a young woman. The woman, unconscious at the time, was assaulted behind a dumpster. Two graduate students riding past the scene were able to stop the assault and detain the...
by heartwg@gmail.com | May 4, 2016 | Building Safer Communities, Self and Community Care
coloredletters.wordpress.com by Eman Hassaballa Aly I have a vessel in me. I don’t know where it’s housed or how big it is, but I know when it’s full, because that’s when I get the urge to write. Maybe it’s my inner pen, and it gets full of ink. Whatever it is,...
by heartwg@gmail.com | May 4, 2016 | Building Safer Communities, Sexual Violence
silhouette girl portrait by Nadiah Mohajir originally published on altmuslimah.com Up until a few years ago, Jian Ghomeshi was known to many Canadians as a singer, musician and radio broadcaster. In 2014, he gained notoriety for a much more sinister reason. Ghomeshi...
