The Deaf Muslim Anarchist Punk
She writes plays, directs and acts in comedy mime skits, moshes in punk pits and reads lips. Sabina England is a 20-something Midwest girl that fits no typecast. I stumbled across Sabina on twitter as the @DeafMuslim when all Taqwacore scenesters would retweet her plays and videos. I was already curious about the Deaf Desi … Read more
Women in Taqwacore and Twitter
For background’s sake, I started thinking and writing about Taqwacore after someone at UW-Madison sent me an article from The Los Angeles Times. At the time, I was blogging for a project called Inside Islam, a new media collaboration between Wisconsin Public Radio and University of Wisconsin-Madison, during a year-long appointment as online community leader. … Read more
Wild Nights Album Review by YAM BOY (AKA Nikesh Shukla)
The Kominas – ‘Wild Nights in Guantanemo Bay’ (2009) It’s two thousand and fucking nine people… Iran is imploding, the BNP is exploding and we’re all still doing the running man like it’s 1988. Who the fuck is Lady Gaga? Who the fuck are the Kominas? Cos they’ll poke—her——face… Anger, destruction, energy, synergy, polemic, ire, … Read more
Masjid “Annoying-core”
Written by Shahjehan Khan I had a little reminder yesterday about just how easily annoyed, sensitive, and downright insecure I am about my “public muslimness”. Let me set the scene. It’s 40 days after the death of a close friend of mine. We’re having a service (chehlum). I have been asked to give the adhaan … Read more
