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How I Learned to Accept Myself
All throughout middle and high school, I was a nerd. Let me correct this: I was a NERD. Capitalized, bolded, and italicized, n. e. r. d. Nerd. Especially in middle school while I was adjusting to the different culture,…
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Hijabi Life Struggles
While hijab can do amazing things for social life around town – random Islam questions, anyone? – it can mean something completely different in our own Muslim communities. Here I share with the struggles we hijabis go through in…
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My Hijab Story
A piece of cloth was a beginning of something beautiful. I never thought in my life that I would wear hijab thinking it was only for the “most pious,” for those who knew the art of leaving the world…