hanamalik, Author at Muslim Girl

Women of Color Carry the Weight of Victim-Blaming in Violent Crimes

While we live in an age where anything can be videotaped, photographed and instantly shared — a 19-year-old girl can be murdered in the privacy of a hotel building without anyone knowing how or why she died. A 19-year-old Black woman named Kenneka Jenkins. And yes, the fact that she is Black matters. There is…

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View of Lower Manhattan, New York before the attacks on September 11th, 2001.

Another Reality of 9/11, 16 Years Later: Reflections of a Pakistani Muslim Woman

By hanamalik

I was born on Aug. 2, 1996 into a Pakistani-American, Muslim family. Five years before the attack on the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001 in New York City. Those five years that I can no longer remember would be the only time in my life that Islamophobia was not attached to my identity. That…