Quick Picks: Writer & Editor Shoaib Alam
This week we feature the current favorites and obsessions of Shoaib Alam, who moved back home with his parents last month, took over his sister’s … Read more
Quick Picks: Research Director & Podcaster Sheela Lal
This week we feature the current favorites and obsessions of Sheela Lal, who has been working in Missouri’s progressive political sphere for the better part of … Read more
Quick Picks: Writer & Journalist Rumnique Nannar
This week we feature the current favorites and obsessions of Rumnique Nannar, communications coordinator at the Wilderness Committee and a writer, whose work has appeared in … Read more
Auntie 2.0, A Manifesto: “We are the Aunties we have been waiting for”
I can’t take credit for the quote in the title of this blog post but it’s a quote that stuck with me since I first … Read more
Sisterhood of Semolina Cakes
“Is it done yet?” I peered at the skillet full of brown sand, glistening on the hot stove top. A stainless-steel plate sat snug over … Read more
This Holiday Season, Let’s Blow This Fucking Popsicle Stand
Merry Christmas to all of you lovely, beautiful, wonderful piles of flesh, meat, fat, muscle, bone, and churning, burning organs. We’re all tiny miracles of biology … Read more
A Win For Civil Rights Groups In The Fight Against #MuslimRegistry
The Department of Homeland Security program known as NSEERS (National Security Entry-Exit Registration System), was established in 2002, on the one-year anniversary of the 9/11 … Read more
Trump Unlocked A Wave Of Hate — In One Of The Bluest Cities In America
It’s not surprising that rhetoric and crimes motivated by hatred of women and minorities are on the rise following the election of Donald Trump. FBI … Read more
Ae Dil Hai Mushkil And The Perils Of Life-Long Love
Yesterday, I saw Ae Dil Hai Mushkil. Disclaimers: I am a feminist. I know the words to every Shah Rukh Khan song in existence. I … Read more
Meet The Minds Inside The Almirah Radio Hour
When podcasters Nina Bhattacharya and Sheela Lal get their feminist wonk on, Almirah Radio Hour listeners can expect to be drawn into conversations about the … Read more
