The First Time I Saw Myself Growing up, I secretly wanted to be white, because all I saw were fun lighthearted girls with solid relationships with their parents and no deep dark familial closeted skeletons. Carefree, few rules, no guilt. What.A.Life. Never having to explain any part of themselves because…

Religion and spirituality are…complicated. They are philosophical concepts complicated by contextualization per region and time period. Thus, being a female Third Culture millennial Muslim is hard. I appreciate religion and am quite fond of Islam, but I also have my bones with it. I like the closeness with a Divine…