Homework Links for Episode #58

We had a lovely time getting ready for Halloween with a spooky wooky guest and we have a special announcement in this episode!

• Our guest for this episode is the writer, thought leader and creative Ayesha Siddiqi.

• The Pushing Hoops With Sticks episode with Ayesha interviewing Aamer Rahman is the life changing episode that made us fall for Ayesha.

• Get some gear from Cult Days x Ayesha Siddiqi collaboration over at The Ones We Love.

• Be sure to read the book that inspired Ayesha’s collab

• The kimono inspired hijab for the Muslim tourists coming through are pretty beautiful. Is this appropriation? Nah.

• Zahra is super into Persian Trap music, thanks to her cousin.

• A muslim girl was disqualified from a race because of her Nike brand sports hijab.

• “Unveiling Your Books’ Boring Title and Covers” twitter thread by @MsEntropy is very re-veil-ing.

• Taz is inspired by two artists this month whose work she got to see - the photographer Hassan Hajjaj and Iranian artist Shirin Neshat.

• Indonesia’s Aries Susanti Rahayu breaks women’s speed climbing world record, finishing the 15-meter course in 6.995 seconds.

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 #17

Recording from inside the White House - photo by Les Talusan

HOLY MOLY, they let us in to record from INSIDE the White House! Here are the links so you can follow along:

Taz & Zahra at the White House. Photo by Les Talusan.

• Taz got an award from the White House! She was one of ten Asian American and Pacific Islanders who received the Champion of Change in Art and Storytelling award last month. Check out the blog Taz wrote for the White House about the award, the Crafting with Mom and Collecting Legacies #MyAAPIStory she recorded for StoryCorps, and this interview she gave to Dexter Thomas with the LA Times with fellow awardees Jenny Yang and Jason Fong!
• Taz recorded a reflection of her White House visit over at her epistolry project Bholo::Speak
• This student said "Inshallah" on a Southwest flight, and then got kicked off. It's fact.
• Students at San Diego State University protested the university's president by praying in front of his car. 
• A Muslim woman files a lawsuit against Long Beach Police Dept for having her remove her hijab. You know, because that's illegal. 
• POTUS went to a Baltimore Mosque, the first visit by the administration to a mosque. Here's what he said. 
• Toddlers are involved with more shootings than Muslims. Well that should have been obvi. 
• Chobani workers gain ownership of the business, thanks to the generous Muslim company owner.
• Did you miss it? Taz and Zahra were in Cosmopolitan - where they called us twenty-somethings. Which is the total truth. 
• We had an awesome conversation with fellow #WHChamps Fawzia Mirza and Kayhan Irani. 

BONUS: Check out this White House AAPI Heritage Month Playlist! Mishthi Music (Taz's music site) helped curate this list! 

Zahra Gets Heaven Points on Snap Judgement

On this week's Snap Judgement, you can hear our very own Zahra talking about heaven points, eating pork, wearing hijab and religious farts! She took the stage at the Snap Judgement LIVE Oakland show earlier this year. Take a listen! And for those of you coming to our website for through listening to Snap Judgement - thanks for stopping by! And be sure to subscribe to the #GoodMuslimBadMuslim Podcast!