“We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.” I was 16 starting my junior year at a Quaker Christian high school when 9/11 happened. I remember the rush of patriotism and nationalism that swept over me—it was amazing. We had been attacked and I wasn’t about to idly sit by and let the […]
They’re helping me turn my eyes toward the light that holds, no matter what cruelty claims victory. The walls of the refugee resettlement agency where I work are like a scrapbook of living history. A poster that says, “Einstein was a refugee.” A construction paper speech bubble of marker and stars, where a Congolese girl […]
Those of us who live at the intersections of vulnerable worlds are struggling. As a queer Muslim immigrant woman from Pakistan, I was horrified to hear about the murder of a young Muslim woman in Fairfax, Virginia, as well as the attack on a mosque in London killing one person and injuring 11. Trump’s silence […]
