Capitalism is not halal
Stories from the Outside
When I think of dismantling all forms of capitalism in our lives, I think of Islam. I think of praying.
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Category Archives: Columns
That time we had sex
Sex on Tuesday
“If we’re both here and we both like each other, why can’t we figure out what we could be?”
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Love in practice
Love in Conversation
In the name of love, I’ve made it a habit to sweep my crumbs dutifully into the sink.
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Our basic humanity
Cal in Color
I’ve often had STEM friends not understand why they have to pay our exorbitant tuition even for classes not clearly related to their major.
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Fever dreaming of America
American Pie?
From rising hate speech to the travel ban to the attacks on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, our country is staggeringly anti-immigrant.
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Mama’s museum
Stories from the Outside
I didn’t realize how these different personal artistic expressions captured and reflected rapidly evolving political, social and economic climates.
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Flirting with my friends
Sex on Tuesday
Eroticism and friendship aren’t mutually exclusive, and I feel erotically toward some of my favorite friends. Even those I don’t want to have sex with.
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Pop songs from our past selves
Love in Conversation
Music is a vessel to hold our experiences, our many selves. It gives us words (and a drumbeat) for every moment of euphoria and every strain of heartbreak.
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Phantasms of inclusion
Cal in Color
Just because UC Berkeley isn’t majority white doesn’t mean that it truly includes its Black undergraduates — and labelling our campus as POC-majority further erases Black students.
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It’s high time
American Pie?
We cannot proceed as though time is linear, as though our reputations are the only things at stake, as though the past is a dusty relic.
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