By: Fadila Khaled Disclaimer: This article doesn’t reflect my family, but rather gathered stories from various people (consensually) put together. I’ve been fully fasting since I was ten years old, I’m twenty today and in the last ten years, I’ve … Continue reading All the Reasons I’m Dreading Ramadan and the One Reason I’m Not
By: Nour Jumma Disclaimer: This article is in no way, shape, or form encouraging anyone to have sex or indulge in self-pleasure. Read that again, please. This article is meant to help you understand that women can orgasm, and that’s a … Continue reading 18 Arab Teen Girls Tell the Stories of Their First Orgasms
By: Neda Ahmed At some point, we feel like time management is really not our thing, and that we’ll just nail it – as always. However, more often than not, we get proven wrong in the least nice way. In … Continue reading How Does One Working Student Juggle Everything While Rejecting Hustle Culture?
By: Lilo Everyone loves a good curl nowadays, spending hours in a salon chair trying to perfect a perm, curling it and freezing them with hairspray. Yet, despite all this, no one wants to talk about being a natural curl-headed … Continue reading Growing Up Curly Haired in the Region Meant Being Called ‘Awlad Ilshuwari3’ Among Other Things
By: Nour Jumma So Victoria’s Secret had a little sale, and there was a pretty bra, and I looked damn hot in it. So I leave the changing room and tell mom I’m ready to stand in the painfully long … Continue reading I Want To Wear Sexy Lingerie, Mama, That Doesn’t Mean I’m Going To Have Sex
By: Lina El Saie Hello I am Lina, a highschool Junior. If you are in disbelief upon reading that don’t worry I am also in disbelief it’s fine. Now, I spent the second semester (third and fourth quarters) of my … Continue reading A Day in the Life of an Unfortunate Online High School Student
By: Aliah What does it mean to belong? According to Google, the official definition of belonging is having ‘an affinity for a place or situation.’ Yet, the word can be interpreted in many different ways. Some may choose to take … Continue reading On Belonging: Growing Up Between Two Cultures and Two Religions
By: Nour Jumma Photo by Saudi artist Zahra Dar Bundakji Is it shameful to eat when you’re hungry? To sleep when you’re tired? To shower? To yawn? To drink when thirsty? To itch your arm? To brush your teeth? To … Continue reading 13 Arab Teen Girls Tell Their Testimonies of Desire, Self-Pleasure, and Shameful Denial
By: Rawan Khalil Going abroad for uni is a process, but at the time of Corona, it happens to be a lot more like going through the seven rings of hell. Let me explain. Take a deep breath and be … Continue reading Traveling to University for My Freshman Year in the Middle of a Global Pandemic
By: Dara Mohd Upon telling a person that I’m from Palestine, they’d stare at me in confusion, not even knowing what country I was talking about. I would have to say Israel, the ‘country’ that terrorized my people, for them … Continue reading Growing Up Palestinian, But Not Home
