Homework Links for Episode #57

Taz and Zahra are coming together after a busy hot girl summer!

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• Zahra is a Pop Culture Collaborative Senior Fellow and her report on comedy is finally out! Read it here: FUNNY IS FUNNY: Development Models for Diverse Voices in Stand-Up Comedy.

• Zahra Billoo was kicked out of the Women’s March and here at GMBM, #WeMarchWithZahra. Support her here.

• Why the world is Dakota Fanning playing a Muslim Somalian Adoptee in Sweetness of the Belly?

• Modi came to Texas and Trump opened for him and we say #AdiosModi. The Intercept has a great summary so you can catch up.

• Betsy DeVos is saying that Duke University portrays Islam too positively, which is just islamophobic blackmail of federal funds.

• Scottish Muslim Tartan kilts are a thing.

• Mindy Kaling produced show Four Weddings and a Funeral does Muslim-ish storytelling right - especially the adorbs Desi wedding!

• Why in the world did Justin Trudeau do brown face?

• Hasan Minhaj gave a really solid and funny Congressional testimony on student debt because he is our every man expert on every issue now.

• Marya Bangee is the best!

• Big ups to Jameela Jamil and Riz Ahmed for cancelling on the Gates Foundation Awards Gala because they were giving an award to Modi. Now, what’s wrong with the Gates Foundation?

Homework Links for Episode #56

You really shouldn’t embarrass yourself by admitting to people you haven’t heard the latest #GoodMuslimBadMuslim podcast yet. Here’s some links to help you along. #ThanksGirls

• How the heck could Congresswoman Rashida Talib and Congresswoman Ilhan Omar be banned from entering Israel?

• Fawzia Mirza wants to know, “Muslim women - I’m developing a show about us. What would you like to see?????”

• Support the Muslim Futurism project by Mipsterz called Alhamdu!

• Amnesty International issued a travel warning to the US because of all the mass shootings, and we don’t blame them.

• Taz issued a fatwa against taking the mic away from young brown women - in this case when Priyanka Chopra took it away Ayesha Malik. You embarrassed yourself, Priyanka.

• We both can’t wait for the “Once Upon an Eid” book to come out!

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.

Homework: Links for Episode 7

We recorded this Episode 7 of our podcast in front of a live studio audience in New York City! To follow along, check out the links below. 

This month, our Good Muslim award went to The Kominas for this awesome holiday song. 

• The awesome DJ Rekha was our dedicated DJ for the whole show and was on stage with us the whole time! Check her out here. 
• Our show was opened by comedy sets by Dina Hashem and Azhar Usman.
• We hosted a Poetry A Day for Ramadan writing group. Read our poems here. 
• Zahra performed at the Muslim Funny Fest in late July. 
• I attended the Netroots Nation conference this year. And I spoke on a panel called, "Love is a Revolutionary Act: Using Culture to Shift Narratives in Communities of Color."
• At the 2011 Netroots Nation, a bunch of us organized a HIjabi Flashmob against the right wing conference.
• #BlackLivesMatter activists stormed the stage at Netroots Nation in 2015 when the presidential candidates were speaking. 
• AJ+ news video on Sandra Bland.
• Chattanooga shooting and his diary entries.
• Taz was quoted in an article called, "Why Are We Still Asking Muslims to Condemn Terrorism?" 
• Zahra was quoted on a radio news piece called, "#GoodMuslimBadMuslim host ponders Washington's pact with Tehran and asks: When can we go home?"
• Somewhere in New York there is a "Muslim-Free" gun store...
• Flight attendant refused a can of soda to a Hijabi Muslim woman, and now can't interact with customers any more. 
• There are 1.57 billion Muslims in the world. In case you were wondering. 
• There is bacon-flavored kale now.  Also, bacon bits are vegan. 
• People in NYC eating at the halal carts don't even know what "halal" means! How creeping shahria is that?
• City of Farmersville, TX, people are scared for the Muslim zombies and are pushing the Muslim graves out of their city.
• Listen to the Good Cha Podcast by Deepa Crash, who also thankfully moderated our Q&A! Follow her podcast to hear the whole thing. 
• Taz is volunteering with Bay Area Solidarity Summer in Oakland. Check them out here!
• Thanks to the Asian American Writers Workshop for hosting our show - learn more about them here!