by heartwg@gmail.com | May 4, 2016 | Guest Bloggers, Safe Communities, Sexual Violence
by Sobia Ali Faisal To best understand the relationship between misogyny and sexual health I’ll begin this piece with a comprehensive definition for each term. Misogyny: “[M]isogyny is primarily a property of social systems or environments as a whole, in which...
by heartwg@gmail.com | Nov 6, 2014 | Guest Bloggers, Sexual Violence
by Jennifer Zobair originally published on the Feminist Wire Whenever the epidemic of rape in Egypt makes the news, I am destined to think of Joyce Carol Oates. Last summer, the author took to twitter to question whether Islam was responsible for...
by heartwg@gmail.com | Apr 3, 2014 | Guest Bloggers, Sexual Violence
by Sarah Hasan The other day I was looking up local Sexual Assault Awareness Month events and thinking about ways to get people from our (‘our’ in this case = Muslim) communities to come out and participate. I started to imagine people who came to my mind first and...
by heartwg@gmail.com | Mar 17, 2014 | Guest Bloggers, Sex Education, Youth Development
By Sameera Qureshi “Because girls are dirty”, was one response a grade five girl gave to my question. We were talking about menstruation and praying, and that Muslim females are excused from performing the five daily prayers and fasting when they are menstruating. But...
by heartwg@gmail.com | Jan 22, 2014 | Guest Bloggers, Mental Well-Being, Sexual Violence
originally printed at http://www.theislamicmonthly.com/reclaiming-my-life-after-sexual-abuse/ By Sarah Rashid “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” – Carl Jung “The soul always knows what to do to heal itself....
