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5:10pm March 14, 2015
bapgeek2geekbap: thequeenofcupsexpectsapicnic: mishasminions: teenmorphine: thewinks-of-thetwink: someoneisstrugglingtobefree: eatmekissmefuckme: THIS. This should be on every billboard across the world until people truly understand it’s meaning and everyone accepts everyone else as equals   SIGNAL BOOST THIS SHABANG ALREADY OMG THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU YES Okay, but let me tell you a personal anecdote on why I disagree with this.  I was born and raised in Sarajevo, in former Yugoslavia.  I was raised atheist and never knew nor cared about the different religions in the country. In fact, I got my frist C when I was given an oral exam about the three main religions in the nation in 3rd grade. When I was ten, a war broke out - ostensibly (though not really, as those things go) about religion. I found out that my best friend’s family was Orthodox and they fled the city before the war started. You see, because of their ties to the aggressor, they knew the war was about to break out. They sure didn’t tell my family, who, as it turns out, were of Muslim heritage. My mom, my sister, and I fled the country pretty early into the war. But I lost an uncle - who was not religious - to a sniper. I don’t know how many of my childhood friends survived. As a refugee, I was called slurs (for Muslim people) and treated as an outsider. My friends and my family were persecuted for being Muslim - although many of us never identified as such. I sure didn’t. But you see, now, now I identify as Muslim. It was a label that was thrust upon me, for sure, but it’s one that I can’t help but embrace in defiance. It’s the only form of resistance left to me. Even as I continue to be atheist, I proclaim proudly that I’m Muslim. Because my identity has been shaped so intensely by that fact. Because I will not hide it and say that we’re all just human. Because my life experience and my identity are constructed around this fact, whether I like it or not. So, yeah, I will take my label and I will embrace it and I will shove it in your face and I will tell you I’m not just human, I’m Muslim. If you have a problem with that, YOU’re the problem. Identity markers are a natural component of our role as social beings. But oppressed identity markers become doubly important because they allow us to resist and to name our suffering and to cast blame where it belongs. So yeah, I’m 100% human. But I’m also Muslim.  If you gotta erase my Blackness (or my femaleness) to treat me with respect, YOU have a problem, not me.

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thequeenofcupsexpectsapicnic:

mishasminions:

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someoneisstrugglingtobefree:

eatmekissmefuckme:

THIS.

This should be on every billboard across the world until people truly understand it’s meaning and everyone accepts everyone else as equals  

SIGNAL BOOST THIS SHABANG ALREADY

OMG THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

YES

Okay, but let me tell you a personal anecdote on why I disagree with this. 

I was born and raised in Sarajevo, in former Yugoslavia.  I was raised atheist and never knew nor cared about the different religions in the country. In fact, I got my frist C when I was given an oral exam about the three main religions in the nation in 3rd grade. When I was ten, a war broke out - ostensibly (though not really, as those things go) about religion. I found out that my best friend’s family was Orthodox and they fled the city before the war started. You see, because of their ties to the aggressor, they knew the war was about to break out. They sure didn’t tell my family, who, as it turns out, were of Muslim heritage. My mom, my sister, and I fled the country pretty early into the war. But I lost an uncle - who was not religious - to a sniper. I don’t know how many of my childhood friends survived. As a refugee, I was called slurs (for Muslim people) and treated as an outsider. My friends and my family were persecuted for being Muslim - although many of us never identified as such. I sure didn’t. But you see, now, now I identify as Muslim. It was a label that was thrust upon me, for sure, but it’s one that I can’t help but embrace in defiance. It’s the only form of resistance left to me. Even as I continue to be atheist, I proclaim proudly that I’m Muslim. Because my identity has been shaped so intensely by that fact. Because I will not hide it and say that we’re all just human. Because my life experience and my identity are constructed around this fact, whether I like it or not. So, yeah, I will take my label and I will embrace it and I will shove it in your face and I will tell you I’m not just human, I’m Muslim. If you have a problem with that, YOU’re the problem. Identity markers are a natural component of our role as social beings. But oppressed identity markers become doubly important because they allow us to resist and to name our suffering and to cast blame where it belongs. So yeah, I’m 100% human. But I’m also Muslim. 

If you gotta erase my Blackness (or my femaleness) to treat me with respect, YOU have a problem, not me.

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