…and I hope mine inspires you — There’s a fly drowning in my coffee. It’s so annoying. I just made it. It’s my fault. I put so much creamer; poor fly thought it was cake and dove to his death. I’m going to have to go to the pantry and make another one. I hate going to…

The 1619 Project is the seed America tried to bury, and now the branches have come to avenge their roots — Origin My dad has two birthdays — the one on his refugee documents and one he discovered in his fifties. Like most refugee kids born in 1948, his birthday is recorded as January 1 because in the years following the Nakba, when 750,000 Palestinians became dispossessed and forced to flee their…

It was a massive scandal. We heard about it all the way in the UAE. A bunch of men dressed in 3abayas snuck into "Women Only" day at the mall in Saudi. As a kid, I remember being concerned about the whole mall being gendered and wondered why on earth…

Tales from a scapegoat —

Peter Pan and his mother — “She’s amazing!” “Eh, she’s OK. He’s way better than her.” “By the way, she’s a whole lawyer. She fights for human rights. She was a consultant for the UN on the crises in Syria and Lebanon and on the committee exposing war crimes in Gaza Strip. She worked on international…

Freedom from your lies — "Being a girl is a heavy crime, and tonight I want to curse my creator for creating me so that I can be so miserable and humiliated." — Sakina Sama, via The Guardian. Sakina had to plead with her father for three years after graduating from secondary school to enroll…

Ghoulish behavior from DiCaprio to Twitter and beyond — You know when you're talking about misogyny, and then a misogynist decides to join the conversation? When you spoonfeed them their privileges, and they still center themselves? How about when you're discussing depravity, and they're like, "How dare you! That's me!" …

Life itself is breathing — Disney's Strange World reminds us that we are all moving parts of an infinite universe, and what seems strange to you is just another element on this ever-growing road called life. The complexities of human constructs- ego- and the simplicity of believing in all possibilities set this movie apart. Strange…

Netanyahu's speech brings doom and gloom — In his most recent interview with Jake Tapper on CNN, Netanyahu says that the future belongs to those who innovate, the USA being first and Isreal second, "Our interests are converging in the 21st century, we provide invaluable Intel, cyber security, weapons development… and civilian technology." A future of doom…