Comments on: Taz’s Top Ten and Thanks

By: DJ Drrrty Poonjabi

DJ Drrrty Poonjabi — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 07:00:57 +0000

The legendary khoofia/hairy_d! Nice torso carpeting; what kind of threadcount are we talking here?

The Vess Coast needs more of ya. Hit me up!

By: Najeeb

Najeeb — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 07:55:14 +0000

I liked your writing and passion, except for the music part stay well, taz.

By: Maria

Maria — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:29:12 +0000

You’ll be missed! As someone who looked to Sepia for different iterations of “desi” while surrounded by plenty of Muslim desi-ness, I found the posts on this site very refreshing. Thanks! Off to find another venue which will bring things together in “one savoury packet.”

P.S. – LOL, this is still a regular on my playlist – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEjYt2qNwmg.

By: V.V.

V.V. — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:33:43 +0000

By: le khoof

le khoof — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:12:02 +0000

DJ DP…!! A shoutout to you too. BTW that was me in the red shirt in the vid. keep an eye open for an uncle-in-training on the vess coast. you’ll know me by the grizzled chest hair.

So ve part SM and now u’re just somebody i used to know http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVNT4wvIGY . les singhada.

By: naila

naila — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 04:17:11 +0000

I hope that you will not stop blogging regularly.

I came upon SM after its heyday (2007, apparently), and I was immediately impressed by your posts.

It was /is rare to find a blogger who is passionate, multi-layered, and an openly practicing Muslim. There are some prominent brown Muslims out there, of course, but they all distance themselves from their faith or are atheists (Aziz Ansari, Fareed Zakaria, e.g.) Of course vibrant female bloggers, writers, artists, and politicians are not rare in our part of the world or in Muslim countries, but in America, Muslim-American voices, and especially Muslim-American female voices, are absent or muted. Therefore, thanks to Abhi for recognizing your talent and giving you a forum, and thank you for taking the stage.

You are a talented writer. You are passionate about the topics you choose. I always admired your bravery in wading into the waters here. For me SM's comments were depressing. I always thought of Hindu and Boddho and Sikhs as my blood brothers and sisters. The hatred of Muslims in the comments genuinely shocked me and made me despair for the amazing subcontinent where divide and conquer has been a way of life for too many centuries.They got to me to the point that I am much more wary in real life.

On the other hand, seeing your posts made me happy to see fellow Muslim women, that I have discovered in small blogs here and there, being mothers, wives, students, doctors, lovers, psychos, artists, musicians, punk-rockers, and/ or, most importantly, writers.

There are more brown faces out in America, true, but I am not sure that they are bringing diversity as an alternate voice in its true form to the table. Higher visibility does not translate to having a voice, especially if the voice is too scared or is simply mimicing and aping the mainstream. You always stood your ground, and you always presented yourself as Taz, and not as some representation of a Muslim woman shaped by media, but shaped by your culture, religion, punk 'tude.

Please update your blog often with your Music Mondays. Please continue to blog about politics. Please continue to speak up.

Khoda hafez.

By: AR

AR — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 02:58:33 +0000

Thanks for the memories.