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:::fatima:::

God is beautiful, and He loves beauty-Muhammad, the best of creation

About Me

so no, i didn't start wearing hijab because anyone told me to..and no it wasn't because of a guy or my father or any other male in my life...no i didn't join a cult and no i'm not an extremist (what is that anyway?)...it was my choice, independently made POST 9.11. why? for a multitude of reasons, including political. you could say using fabric as a voice of opposition to the dichotomous extremes people paint or percieve islam; i'm not oppressed and i'm not the oppressor; i'm not ashamed and i'm not over-zealous; i'm not passive and i'm not furious; i'm not uneducated and i'm not brainwashed; and i'm not a-sexual nor am i of the preversed westernized vision of the harem. for me, this is about reclaiming womanhood and the organic power of the feminine back from budweiser billboards, brothels, and BET. yes i like fashion, makeup and skin but no it's not going to define me. i give permission to who can unveil me with their eyes. but it is true, the ummah is in dire straits, and we muslimahs need to educate ourselves because like the Cheyenne say "A people are not defeated until the hearts of its women are on the ground.'

My Interests

teaching:learning, community empowerment, social justice, exploring, thinking, reading, films, decorating, designing, writing when inspired, walking, photography, the visual arts, the spoken arts, people who humble me, human rights, youth, different cultures, color, the earth, nature, trees (i would marry a tree if i could), the deen, the Creator and the created, the righteous but not the self-righteous, monkeys, how everything comes from soil and water, fruits like lychee and mango, sidewalk conversations, landscaping, home improvement, making things by hand, painting, fashion, cities and farms, socio-economic realities, nature shows, the moon, world health care, non-processed-over-bleached-hydrogenized-fructosified food, cookbooks, drooling on cookbooks, watching cooking shows, making pretty food, baking, eating, beaches/oceans, nature hikes, bike riding, pretending to skateboard, babies, romance, photojournalism, the plights of people, people with melanin, struggle, empowerment, discipline, and women who don't put up with ish.

I'd like to meet:

workers and thinkers

Music:

yes please
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Movies:

movies or documentaries that capture real life in all its beauty and repulsion.... from the Battle of Algiers to Their Eyes Were Watching God

Television:


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Books:

I have a lot of half-read books, I admit. Somewhere past the first few pages or chapters, I get over-stimulated and start walking around in circles, talking to myself. What, you don't do this?

Heroes:

all those single moms and working moms and stay-at-home moms and refugee moms and the work-two-jobs moms and the adoptee moms and *the good* foster moms and the bending backwards moms and rise up moms and the freedom fighter moms and the mothers of the believers moms and my mom.

My Blog

windows down..big sunglasses on...wind blowin through my long black hair--wait....

cars I want:         & nbsp;   *(~.~)* 1) old school cadillac. Long and wide. And I want to fix it up myself! diAmonD iN the bAck, suN rooF toP, d...
Posted by :::fatima::: on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:44:00 PST

sage

If you can disentangle yourself from your selfish selfall heavenly spirits will stand ready to serve you if you can finally hunt down your own beastly selfyou have the right to claim Solomon's kingdom...
Posted by :::fatima::: on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 12:45:00 PST

more neruda. what? I'm having a poet moment.

If You Forget Me    I want you to knowone thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the f...
Posted by :::fatima::: on Thu, 04 May 2006 08:37:00 PST

la tierra y los gente - my favorite photographer

check out his photos! 
Posted by :::fatima::: on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:03:00 PST

love

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,in secret, between the shadow and the soul.I love ...
Posted by :::fatima::: on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:36:00 PST

poison

Brother stand the pain; Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. - Jalalu'l-Din Rumi ...
Posted by :::fatima::: on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:00:00 PST