February282012
racismfreeontario: Farrah Khan. At the age of 16, Farrah Khan picked up a microphone to speak out about sexual assault and has not put it down since. Named by the Toronto Star as one of 2011′s “People to Watch,” she has spent the last sixteen years working diligently to raise awareness of gender-based violence through art creation, counseling and community development. Farrah holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Toronto and supports women who are survivors of violence as a counselor and advocate at the Barbra Schlifer Clinic. The Clinic provides legal representation, professional counselling and multilingual interpretation to 4000 women each year. At the Clinic Farrah is currently is coordinating Outburst, Young Muslim Women Safety Project looking at ways social services agencies and institutions can be more accessible to young Muslim women. Farrah is an artist who uses prose, video and craft to explore the intersections of migration, faith and community. Deeply disturbed by the 2007 murder of teenager Aqsa Parvez, Farrah recognized that young Muslim women needed safer spaces to connect. She co-founded AQSAzine, a grassroots award-winning art collective. The collective published four issues of an internationally-distributed magazine celebrating Muslim youth writing and art. Her writing has been featured in AQSAzine and Feminism for REAL edited by Jessica Yee. Farrah’s short films have been screened at the Art Gallery of Ontario, as well as at festivals in New York and the UK. Currently she is working on her first graphic novella with illustrator Somya Singh and a play with The Beekeepers Society. Farrah is an emerging leader in grassroots equity movements and has been presented with numerous awards, including the Canadian Council of Muslim Women, Women Who Inspire Award and Urban Alliance Relations Community Award. follow @farrah_khan Day 76 of Racism Free Ontario’s100 People of Colour Spotlight. Follow our facebook fanpage , tumblr, twitter and website for daily updates.  (via Farrah Khan)

racismfreeontario:

Farrah Khan. At the age of 16, Farrah Khan picked up a microphone to speak out about sexual assault and has not put it down since. Named by the Toronto Star as one of 2011′s “People to Watch,” she has spent the last sixteen years working diligently to raise awareness of gender-based violence through art creation, counseling and community development. Farrah holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Toronto and supports women who are survivors of violence as a counselor and advocate at the Barbra Schlifer Clinic. The Clinic provides legal representation, professional counselling and multilingual interpretation to 4000 women each year. At the Clinic Farrah is currently is coordinating Outburst, Young Muslim Women Safety Project looking at ways social services agencies and institutions can be more accessible to young Muslim women.

Farrah is an artist who uses prose, video and craft to explore the intersections of migration, faith and community. Deeply disturbed by the 2007 murder of teenager Aqsa Parvez, Farrah recognized that young Muslim women needed safer spaces to connect. She co-founded AQSAzine, a grassroots award-winning art collective. The collective published four issues of an internationally-distributed magazine celebrating Muslim youth writing and art. Her writing has been featured in AQSAzine and Feminism for REAL edited by Jessica Yee. Farrah’s short films have been screened at the Art Gallery of Ontario, as well as at festivals in New York and the UK. Currently she is working on her first graphic novella with illustrator Somya Singh and a play with The Beekeepers Society.

Farrah is an emerging leader in grassroots equity movements and has been presented with numerous awards, including the Canadian Council of Muslim Women, Women Who Inspire Award and Urban Alliance Relations Community Award.

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Farrah Khan activist canada 

December132011
lotus-eyes: Rally led by poetess Sufia Kamal Sufia Kamal (Bangla: সুফিয়া কামাল) (June 20, 1911-November 20, 1999) was a poet, writer, organizer, feminist and activist from Bangladesh. She was born to a Muslim family in Barisal, Bangladesh. She is one of the most widely recognized cultural personalities in Bangladesh. When she died in 1999, she was buried with full state honors, the first woman in Bangladesh to receive this honor. Shewas born in Shaestabad, daughter of a distinguished zamindar family, in Barisal. During her childhood, women’s education was prohibited and she could not afford to get academic education. But she learnt Bangla, Hindi, English, Urdu, Arabic, Kurdish and Persian language from her house tutors. In 1918, she went to Kolkata with her mother where she came to meet with Begum Rokeya. She was first married at the age of 11 to her cousin Syed Nehal Hossain, then a law student. They had a daughter, Amena Kahar, and Mr. Hossain died in 1932. Five years later, Ms. Kamal married Kamaluddin Ahmed. In addition to her first daughter, Ms. Kamal is survived by two other daughters, Sultana Kamal and Saida Kamal; two sons, Shahed Kamal and Sajed Kamal; three grandsons, three granddaughters and four great-grandchildren. A short story “Shainik Bodhu” which she wrote was published in a local paper in 1923. She came across prominent South Asian personalities, such as Begum Rokeya, Kazi Nazrul Islam, and Mahatma Gandhi. Rokeya, who can be regarded the first female feminist of Bengal, had a lasting impression on her. Sufia Kamal’s first poem, Bashanti (Of spring), was published in the then influential magazine, Saogat in 1926. In 1931 she became the first Bengali Muslim female to be the member of Indian Women Federation.

lotus-eyes:

Rally led by poetess Sufia Kamal

Sufia Kamal (Bangla: সুফিয়া কামাল) (June 20, 1911-November 20, 1999) was a poet, writer, organizer, feminist and activist from Bangladesh. She was born to a Muslim family in Barisal, Bangladesh. She is one of the most widely recognized cultural personalities in Bangladesh. When she died in 1999, she was buried with full state honors, the first woman in Bangladesh to receive this honor.

Shewas born in Shaestabad, daughter of a distinguished zamindar family, in Barisal. During her childhood, women’s education was prohibited and she could not afford to get academic education. But she learnt Bangla, Hindi, English, Urdu, Arabic, Kurdish and Persian language from her house tutors. In 1918, she went to Kolkata with her mother where she came to meet with Begum Rokeya. She was first married at the age of 11 to her cousin Syed Nehal Hossain, then a law student. They had a daughter, Amena Kahar, and Mr. Hossain died in 1932. Five years later, Ms. Kamal married Kamaluddin Ahmed.

In addition to her first daughter, Ms. Kamal is survived by two other daughters, Sultana Kamal and Saida Kamal; two sons, Shahed Kamal and Sajed Kamal; three grandsons, three granddaughters and four great-grandchildren.

A short story “Shainik Bodhu” which she wrote was published in a local paper in 1923. She came across prominent South Asian personalities, such as Begum Rokeya, Kazi Nazrul Islam, and Mahatma Gandhi. Rokeya, who can be regarded the first female feminist of Bengal, had a lasting impression on her.

Sufia Kamal’s first poem, Bashanti (Of spring), was published in the then influential magazine, Saogat in 1926. In 1931 she became the first Bengali Muslim female to be the member of Indian Women Federation.

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Sufia Kamal Bangladesh feminist activist writer 

March52011
darling80m: via the angry arab, on Nawwarah Najm Without a doubt, this woman is one of the leading brave protesters of the Egyptian uprising.  Her voice has been ubiquitous on Aljazeerah.  Yet, she is nowhere to be seen in the Western media: Perhaps because she wears a hijab; Perhaps because she is fiercely anti-Israel/anti-US; Perhaps because she has a picture of Hasan Nasrallah on her blog. Her blog is a leading Arab blog, by the way. PS She is the daughter of Egyptian poet, Ahmad Fuad Najm.

darling80m:

via the angry arab, on Nawwarah Najm

Without a doubt, this woman is one of the leading brave protesters of the Egyptian uprising.  Her voice has been ubiquitous on Aljazeerah.  Yet, she is nowhere to be seen in the Western media:

  1. Perhaps because she wears a hijab;
  2. Perhaps because she is fiercely anti-Israel/anti-US;
  3. Perhaps because she has a picture of Hasan Nasrallah on her blog. Her blog is a leading Arab blog, by the way.

PS She is the daughter of Egyptian poet, Ahmad Fuad Najm.

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Egypt blogger activist 

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