Lifestyle

There’s More to My Relationship Than Social Media

We often compare our relationships to other peoples’ picture perfect photos, so I wanted to share a very beautiful, yet painful, story about my marriage in the hopes that we try just a little harder.⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣Bub and I have been together for the last 12 years and we got married five years after we started…

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#MGAnon: I Kissed a Guy, and I Liked It

Welcome to #MuslimGirlAnon, your one-stop spot for all the advice you could need! Every week, we crowd-source the very best advice our #MGClique has to offer about issues plaguing our girl gang. Need some advice? Write to editorial@muslim-girl-2021-production.mystagingwebsite.com, and we may just feature you!  Q: “Dear MG, I kissed a guy and it was my…

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Mistaking a Woman’s Trauma as Bitterness

It’s been nineteen years since I witnessed the first physical altercation between a man and a woman. Mom and my brother’s dad. Fifteen years since I saw my brother choke one of Mom’s temporary husbands because of yet another domestic dispute. Five years since I, myself, was incarcerated for domestic violence because that boy I…