Homework Links for Episode #23

So the Elections are done, you are in one of the five stages of grief, and you want to help! Here's a links to all the things we talked about in our "Pins and Polls" podcast, and be sure to join the conversation through our hashtag! And if you are so moved, we like our Christmas gift in the form of a donation.

If you are the victim of a hate crime, please use this #ReportHate link at the Southern Poverty Law Center to report it.
How do you even begin to protect yourself before Jan 20th? Here's a great How To list to get you started.
Looking for your weekly list of activist things to do? Join Wall-Of-Us to get your updates!
Join the Movement to Oppose Trump to join movement emails by Michael Skolnik.
Not sure how to make calls or where to sign petitions? Use the 18MillionRising action tool right here - it's easy and the call tool will call your phone directly and link you up.
Looking to make lots of calls? Use this "We're His Problem Now" calling tool right here.
Money talks - and use #GrabYourWallet resource to know which business to boycott now.
Trump Administration wants to reinstate NSEERS.
The internment of the Japanese-Americans set a precedent for what might happen to Muslims.
There have been 867 hate incidences in the ten days after Election Day, reports the Southern Poverty Law Center.
To track the anti-Muslim hate crimes, you can visit Islamophobia.org
Trump supporters threw fire into a car where the Muslim driver was burned.
Why you shouldn't use the term "Alt-Right" and if you do, this is how the AP says to use it.
Muslims are in solidarity with #NoDAPL. Just watch.
If you want to support #NoDAPL, buy and send supplies here.
Is Glenn Beck woke now? Read this article that implies he is - and then watch his interview with Anderson Cooper.
Heera Hashmi and her amazing spreadsheet of Muslims condemning things gets a Good Muslim Award.
SAALT cuts their ties with Southwest Airlines.
Get your copy of Cashmere by the Swet Shop Boys.
Follow the wise words and music of the awesome Humble the Poet.

Posted on November 28, 2016 by Taz & Zahra and filed under Links and tagged Action Elections Calls Petitions Activism Muslim.

Homework Links for Episode #22

We had such high hopes for this Election Day - check out the links below!

WE WON AN AWARD FROM THE OCA-GLA! Check them out, they do such great work.
Friendly reminder that Good Girls Marry Doctors is out, and you can still buy it.
We hung out in the YouTube LA space with Fusion, and here’s the awesome video we made.
Did you see Zahra on MTV’s #BeyondTheWall project?
“Nasty woman” was supposed to hurt Hillary. Turns out it isn’t.
But Hillary’s rhetoric it is hurting Muslims. The only “front lines” we’re in are for In-N-Out Burger.
It’s getting difficult to keep up with all the Islamophobia, so here’s a convenient timeline of hate.
We are big fans of Hindu and India, and Muslims like us didn’t get our lightsabers like the Hindu Rally said. We demand a refund from the mosques.
If Trump and his supporters wanted Muslims to leave America, he got what he wished for. These Muslims from North Carolina are leaving because of a hate attack on their son.
Pence and Trump are like that couple getting ready to divorce, but not sure whether they will. Pence doesn’t agree with the Muslim ban, but Trump…
Oh, hey, and some American domestic terrorists tried to bomb a mosque.

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Posted on October 28, 2016 by Tanzila Ahmed and filed under Links and tagged Elections muslim.

The Muslim Guide to Voting

The #GoodMuslimBadMuslim guide to voting from Fusion Comedy is up and it's hilarious. Don't let Trump goons keep you from your right to creep Sharia all over those poll-watchers.

Posted on October 28, 2016 by Taz & Zahra and filed under Performances and tagged Elections Fusion Voting Donald Trump islamophobia New Media Against Racism.

Homework Links for Episode #21

We’re 21! Our podcast can dr- ...well, I guess that depends on how much of a Good Muslim or Bad Muslim you are. But, regardless, we’re old enough to say we’ve been fighting ISIS for our entire adult lives.

Zahra was in NYC during 9/11 and the most recent bombings. By the way, his dad outed him to the FBI in 2014 and nothing happened. What.
We talk the bigotry when it comes to the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, how some people think he was being “radicalized.” Because most people are radicalized while waiting to pick up their sons from school.
Some date cookies got bomb-squaded. The only bombs in them were sugar bombs.
Speaking of NYC again, there was an all-hijab line at NYC fashion week. Y’know, the same place where a woman who was wearing hijab was set on fire.
Here’s our #GoodMuslimBadMuslim-sponsored bingo card.
Take another swig of pomegranate juice and rose water, another hate crime happened this week: a man’s car was set on fire.
Noor Taghuri spoke to Playboy about wearing a hijab, and Muslim Twitter went wild. Funny, we don’t remember them doing the same for Malcom X and Muhammad Ali.
Taz’s #GoodMuslim award goes out to DJ Nessa, Colin Kaepernick’s girlfriend. Taz also puts it out there that she’s willing to date any NFL quarterbacks. Zahra’s goes out to Rayouf Alhumedhi for designing a hijab emoji.
Taz’s fatwa is for doing away with the garbage term “Muslim Garb.” Women like Nazma Khanam deserve better.
Golden retrievers are white boys.
Taz is not married. She is single.
Check out Zahra on MTV’s #BeyondTheWall project and get Good Girls Marry Doctors, a book that Taz helped contribute on!

Zahra's view from the 1 World Trade Center.

Posted on September 29, 2016 by Taz & Zahra and tagged Homework Links hijab Hate crimes New York City Elections #BlackLivesMatter.

Homework Links for Episode #15

Zahra and I had a BLAST at South by Southwest - thanks to Dropbox for flying us out and making this experience happen! See, look at how happy we are in this cute video of all the Podcast Studio participants! You want those links to what we said? Check out what we talked about below:

Taz's chapbook is available now - Emdash & Ellipses.
Mishthi Music - Taz's South Asian diaspora music blog.
Taz was honored in NBC's 31 Days of Feminism for the month of women!
Fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad was asked to take her hijab off at #SXSW. But just look at how cool she looks on the Ellen Show. How could you?
Three boys were stabbed in Huntington Beach for speaking in Arabic.
Three people were shot in Milwaukee for speaking another language and being Brown.
And another three black men were shot & #OurThreeBrothers campaign started.
Surashbhai Patel GHangout with 18MillionRising, check out the video #Justice4MrPatel.
Protest of Trump in Chicago was led by Latino and Muslim students.
Sanders took the Muslim vote in Michigan.
Feminist critique of Clinton.
Muslim themed children's books.
Curious George celebrates Ramadan.
Saqib Javed and his epic hair flip felt around the world.
7% of Muslims are voting for Trump.
Trump's Muslim daughter - Ayesha Ali Trump.
Muslim women removed from plane for staring. But like, aunties stare. So get over it.
Taz's latest project w/ Rohin Guha, Bholo::Speak
Zahra's YouTube Channel where you can watch her one-minute stories.
The Coiled Serpent from Tia Chucha Press - the Los Angeles poetry anthology Taz is in.
Thank you to Amanda Quraishi for moderating the Auntie Staredown!

While there, Taz was also able to check out South Asian musicians for her South Asian Diaspora site Mishthi Music. Check out the posts she wrote on the musicians here:

Posted on March 27, 2016 by Tanzila Ahmed and filed under Links and tagged #SXSW Muslim Interactive Dropbox Music Women Staring Feminism Arabic Hate Crimes Trump Fatwa Elections.

Homework: Links for Episode #13

Thank you so much to University of Michigan's South Asian Awareness Network for hosting us for this episode of #GoodMuslimBadMuslim! Check out the following links to follow along to Episode #13 - Live From University of Michigan: