#GoodMuslimBadMuslim with Taz & Zahra
September 26, 2016 1:09 PM Subscribe
#GoodMuslimBadMuslim is a podcast by Taz Ahmed and Zahra Noorbakhsh.
Tanzila 'Taz' Ahmed is Campaign Strategist of 18MillionRising and wrote a thought-provoking article about interracial dating, "[m]ost importantly, my career was about training and educating people on social justice issues. The last thing I wanted to do was come home to a space where I had to continue to educate." In May 2016, Taz was recognized as a White House Champion of Change for AAPI Art and Storytelling. To close out the White House ceremony, Taz read a poem from her chapbook called "Mom's Belonging".
Zahra Noorbakhsh is a comedian and has a series of articles entitled My Infidel Husband. Recently she wrote about her intersectional coming-out story where her sister asks Zahra, “Orlando must have been really hard for you. Are you okay?”
Don't ask who is the 'good' or the 'bad' Muslim; read about the concept!
Tanzila 'Taz' Ahmed is Campaign Strategist of 18MillionRising and wrote a thought-provoking article about interracial dating, "[m]ost importantly, my career was about training and educating people on social justice issues. The last thing I wanted to do was come home to a space where I had to continue to educate." In May 2016, Taz was recognized as a White House Champion of Change for AAPI Art and Storytelling. To close out the White House ceremony, Taz read a poem from her chapbook called "Mom's Belonging".
Zahra Noorbakhsh is a comedian and has a series of articles entitled My Infidel Husband. Recently she wrote about her intersectional coming-out story where her sister asks Zahra, “Orlando must have been really hard for you. Are you okay?”
Don't ask who is the 'good' or the 'bad' Muslim; read about the concept!
I love listening to smart women who enjoy each other's company talking about ideas and issues that they care about. This is terrific. Thanks!
posted by bibliotropic at 8:48 PM on September 26, 2016 [3 favorites]
posted by bibliotropic at 8:48 PM on September 26, 2016 [3 favorites]
I like the podcast a lot. It suffers from the common "two friends bullshit about topic X in an unscripted way," and Noorbakhsh, as a comedian, seems to forget that she used that joke last episode and the two before that, but every episode so far has given me a couple of things to think about, a couple more to get angry at, and a couple of laughs, so, well worth a listen.
posted by GenjiandProust at 12:37 PM on September 27, 2016
posted by GenjiandProust at 12:37 PM on September 27, 2016
I recently ran into the coming-out article, and when this came around I watched the Snap Judgement segment with Zahra linked above. Clearly a fun and funny person.
posted by the antecedent of that pronoun at 3:06 PM on September 27, 2016
posted by the antecedent of that pronoun at 3:06 PM on September 27, 2016
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“Nobody stands between you and Allah. Remember that. THAT is Islam! Jesus walked on water, but Allah gave a young, illiterate orphaned boy named Muhammed a book and said, ‘Read.’ Self-discovery made a prophet! Not a bunch of self-righteous jerks.”
Self-discovery made a prophet. What an amazing, complicated idea.
posted by sobell at 2:19 PM on September 26, 2016 [7 favorites]