Congratulations. You Have Reached the End.

So. That’s our show. All of it. We made it to the finish line. After five years, the podcast has come to an end.

We are so proud of the work we’ve been able to accomplish over the past five years of doing this show. We have been able to contribute and shape the conversation of what it means to be Muslim in America, especially as two very different woman, and we challenged the way society tried to box us in the whole time. We complicated the narrative and re-centered our experiences. We practiced shine theory and incorporated our theory of social change. We’ve gotten national awards, been let into space that we previously thought wasn’t meant for us, cried with our listeners, and got to practice radical play that spread joy. What a wild ride it has truly been.

Of course, we have our own favorite highlights to the podcast, which we’ve included below.

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Zahra’s #GoodMuslimBadMuslim Top Highlights

• Debriefing the 2016 Elections on the show was so helpful to make it feel like we were less alone.

• After the Pulse Shooting, Zahra comes out.

• Going to the Agha Khan Museum in Toronto to record both an episode of the show and a live recording of On Behalf of All Muslims was truly a gift.

• A classic episode has to be the one where Zahra tells the story of how her mother removed her partner’s body hair.

• We recorded live from inside the White House - the Obama White House specifically - which seems like a dream with Trump now in office.

Taz’s #GoodMuslimBadMuslim Top Highlights

• Going on the Manzanar Pilgrimage with Vigilant Love and accidentally recording a most amazing episode, my favorite.

• We had the most moving moments while in a week long artist residency at Shangri-La Museum of Arts, Culture and Design in Honolulu.

• After the 2016 elections, all of a sudden, people were donning safety pins to show solidarity with Muslims. So, we sold our own for $2,020.

• Taz loved going on a tour of Little Bangladesh in a produced narrative podcast - and got to share the foods of her peeps.

• We worked with the good folks at Fusion Comedy to make The Muslim Guide to Voting - and it was truly an electoral organizer’s dream come true.

Though we are ending this show - we are both in love with the art form of podcast and are in it for the long haul - you will def be hearing us in the world of audio in future projects. We are not leaving! And we are both still making content - essays, poetry, mixtapes, videos - as well as available for speaking engagements and workshops. We will continue to speak up and out as Muslimahs in America, whether you like it or not. To follow what next, follow Taz Ahmed at @tazzystar and at www.tazzystar.me & follow Zahra Noorbakhsh at @zahracomedy and at www.zahracomedian.com.

A big huge thank you also to our sound engineer Quincy Surasmith, who was the engine behind our show. It was a conversation in a cubicle with Taz & Quincy that really turned an idea into a product - thank you for taking a chance on us. Listen to his podcast Asian Americana now.

The good thing about leaving now is knowing there are plenty of other Muslim/Brown American podcasts to pass the baton on to. Listen to our friends - See Something, Say Something podcast, Identity Politics podcast, Ethnically Ambiguous podcast, Bad Brown Aunties podcast, American Submitter podcast, Tell Them I Am podcast, Bollywood Boys podcast, Solidarity Is podcast, Queering Desi podcast, and The BIG We podcast.

Finally, we are so grateful to our community of fellow Asian American podcasters in the Potluck Podcast Collective. We recorded many of our shows out of the Potluck Podcast studio located in the office of Visual Communication in Little Tokyo, and we couldn’t have done it without this crew. Listen to all the shows in the network!

Till next time, inshallah.

Homework Links for Episode #61

For our last episode (at least last for now) we had a HUGE house party where we recorded a live show! It was a wonderful way to celebrate the end of our five year long project.

• Valentine’s Day is even more special with one of Taz’s #MuslimVDay cards.

• To keep up to date with the elections, we have been listening to The Daily podcast.

• Here’s more on the islamophobic nature of the 2020 Presidential candidates, particularly Tulsi Gabbard.

• Jump into helping to Get Out the Muslim Vote by joining the Mpower Change campaign.

• One of Zahra’s highlight was to go on United Shades of America with Kamau Bell and interview an Iranian hostage survivor.

• President Trump has appropriated the hijabi tan line.

• Thyroid extract is taken from a pig, so does that make it haram?

• Let us not forget The Bacon Lobby and how it is forcing bacon on people worldwide.

• The 2020 Census is making it really hard for Asian Americans to actually fill out their Asian American type - follow the Count Us In Campaign and be sure to fill in your ethnicity accordingly!

• Thank you to all the organizers behind the #NoMuslimBanEver campaign - thank you for fighting the good fight.

• Special thanks to Shahjehan Khan from The Kominas for the amazing music you hear on the show, including the going to away song at the end of the show!

Thank you all for listening to all of our episodes over the past 5 years! We are grateful to each and every one of you. Drop us a line if you have a favorite #GoodMuslimBadMuslim story - we’d love to hear what this show has meant to you over all these years.

Homework Links for Episode #60

We know that after all these years of talking about how we need Muslim Christmas themed movies that you were begging for us to write our own. Well, there were maybe three of you that tweeted at us that we should. So lucky listeners, we responded to you (at least the three of you).

On this very special episode, Zahra and Taz wrote two fiction Muslim Christmas Rom Com audio narratives! Not only did we write and direct these stories, we were so lucky to cast our friends who were able to bring these characters to life!

Feature Presentation: The Christmas Jinn by Taz Ahmed

Featuring: Zehra Fazal, Fawzia Mirza, Dante Basco, Ramy El-Etreby, Ahmed Ali Akbar, Derrick Lemos, Sean Miura, & Zahra Noorbakhsh. Produced with support from Marvin Yueh & Quincy Surasmith.

• A jinn is basically a genie. Learn more here.

• Jesus is a prophet in Islam. We call him Isa.

• The History of the Christmas Tree.

• The History of Gingerbread.

• The History of the Christmas Pickle.

• I swear, the origin of mistletoe resembling sticky semen is not a myth that we made up.

• Sign the petition to tell Wayfair that they need to stop profiting off of migrant children and concentration camps.

• Children are dying in US custody at the border.

Trailer: Back to the Silk Road by Zahra Noorbakhsh

Featuring: Kausar Mohammed, Fawzia Mirza, Ali Dean, Pej Vahdat, & Shahjehan Khan. Produced with support from Phil Surkis, Scott Okamoto, Joey Clift, Marvin Yueh & Quincy Surasmith.

• This is what the Paykan i.e. the Iranian Chariot looks like.

• The father of algebra is Muslim.

• Coffee was primarily consumed in the Islamic world where it originated and was directly related to religious practices.

• You know, Rumi.

Homework Links for Episode #59

In this episode, Zahra and Taz branch off to explore their own produced narratives of home and belonging.

• In this episode, Taz explores the only Little Bangladesh located in the heart of Los Angeles. It got it’s official designation in 2010 by the City of Los Angeles.

• Our guest for the eating tour is illustrator and author and fellow punk Bangladeshi Fahmida Azim! (And check her IG @Fahmida_Azim)

• Fahmida Azim is the illustrator behind the book Muslim Women Are Everything that just published this spring.

• Fahmida and Taz met because we did a page in a book together - Six Words Fresh Off the Boat.

• The music we hear in this episode is by the amazing Bangladeshi-New-York hip hop artist Anik Khan.

• Fahmida’s gibbly nihari illustration that got her started on her path is very delicious looking.

• The music we heard came from the Bangladesh Academy of Los Angeles.

• Bengal Liquor had no Bengali liquor.

• The book that helped Taz connect with her mom is Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies.

• The walking tour of Little Bangladesh took us through delicious eats that we highly recommend you visit - check out Bangla Bazar, Asian Mart, Deshi Food and Groceries, Katsuri Halal Meat, Aladin Sweets, and Biriyani Kabob House.

• In Zahra’s piece, she talks about the body’s ability to be in homeostasis.

• Hanna’s family escaped Palestine because in the Nakba - learn more about it here.

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 #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 #55

It is summertime in the Los Angeles - and we are back fresh from Taz’s birthday extravaganza in Mexico.

• Trump tells women of color Congress members to “go back to where they came from”. And we don’t like it.

• Zahra’s been hard at work with her one-woman comedy show, On Behalf of All Muslims. Catch a tidbit here.

• There is a type of taco in Mexico that came from Lebanon.

• Jenna Jameson is basically Muslim since she is doing intermittent fasting which is basically the White-Girls-Ramadan.

• Nicki Minaj canceled her tour to Saudi Arabia, thank god.

Homework Links for Episode #46

Taz and Zahra are finally back together in person in this episode - and it is live from the de Young Museum in San Francisco. We were a part of supporting the current exhibit - Contemporary Muslim Fashion. It was gorgeous and we were so proud to have been able to been included in such a celebration.

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Taz and Zahra speaking at de Young Museum.

• Taz wore a skirt from Ibtihaj Muhammad’s modest Muslim clothing line, Louella. And it’s lovely.

• This Halloween, be sure not to costume your dress politically in-correct.

• You too can “feel like I just took a vacation on Planet Handsome Charming Modern Muslim, which is located in the Everything Is Going To Be Okay Galaxy” with this vid of Hasan and Tan being fashionable.

• #HijabiHeroes at New York Comic Con is something you have to see.

• You must check out the series and the book by Samin Nosrat - Salt Fat Acid Heat.

• Maytha Alhassan released a fantastic report on the relationship between Hollywood and the exotification/terrorization of Muslims in the media.

• It’s true - Sinead O’Conner converted to Islam and is now doing azaan.

Homework Links for Episode #45

Taz had an awesome time at the She the People summit hosted by Aimee Allison and was so excited to share her day with y’all in the last episode - especially given the dumpster fire of the Kavanaugh Supreme Court nominations. There was a lot going on in the last show, so here are some links so you can follow along:

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Linda Sarsour, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib and Taz Ahmed at She The People summit.

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Taz Ahmed supporting #MyMuslimVote on National Muslim Voter Registration Day.

• It’s election season and you all should be following the #MyMuslimVote campaign from Mpower Change! Visit their toolkit to run a campaign at your own mosque and use the hashtag to tell us why your vote matters!

• Aimee Allison who hosted the She The People summit, also has her own podcast - Democracy in Color. Do give it a listen!

• First Desi female Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal spoke on our show - and she is amazing.

• We talked to soon-to-be Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib on this episode - read more about her phenomenal win here.

• To keep up with all the activism work that Linda Sarsour is doing, follow her very active facebook page. And here’s an article about her arrest at the Kavanaugh hearing, who we all agree needs to not be a Supreme Court Judge.

• Poet and writer Elmaz Abinader is a dear writing mentor to both Zahra and Taz - and we were thrilled to have her speak on this show. Check out her writing, poetry and books - and do check out the writing workshop she helped start up for writers of color - Voices of Our Nations Arts/VONA.

• Taz also has a huge correction - she misspoke Ilhan’s name! The second Muslim Congresswoman entering this next year is Ilhan Omar and you can learn more about her here.

• What about the fatwa on eating what kind of bagels you want? It has something to do with Cynthia Nixon’s bagel choices.

• A big shout out to our sibling in the Muslim podcasting world and Taz’s #GoodMuslim Award receiver - Ahmed Ali Akbar and the See Something Say Something podcast is ending! We are sad to see them go and sharing this space with them meant the world to us.

• Be sure to enter the Safwat Saleem x #GoodMuslimBadMuslim Art for Dark Times giveaway! Due it by October 31st!

Homework Links for Episode #29

For this very special episode of #GoodMuslimBadMuslim, Zahra and Taz went to the Japanese American 1940s internment camp known as Manzanar, It was part of the annual pilgrimage that has been happening at the site for the pas 48 years.  Thank you to all the friends that allowed us to join in on this experience and a special well of love to the the Japanese American elders who were incarcerated and the activists that did the work to make sure this wasn't forgotten. 

• To learn more about Executive Order 9066 and the Manzanar camp, watch Tad Nakamura's short film "Pilgrimage" available online here. 
• To learn more about Vigilant Love Coalition - a solidarity art-first grassroots organization formed out of the Japanese American and Muslim community after the the San Bernardino shooting - please visit the Vigilant Love site. 
• Learn more about Manzanar by visiting the National Park's website and to follow the Manzanar Committee's site to attend the next pilgrimage and other events. You also can visit the park on own, and we'd highly encourage you all to do so.

Homework Links for Episode #25

Welcome to the Trumpocalypse. First things first: we are not going away, and we are not changing our names to Sarah and Tammy.

• Start off with some levity: Taz's #MuslimVDay cards are out again, and they are selling out fast.
• Zahra was on NPR's Fresh Air with an essay about prayer (yes, yes, that rhymed).
• And Donald Trump listened to the Quran. It was... interesting.
• We don't wear hijabs, but if we did, we wouldn't want American flags on them. Here's why.
• The Muslim Ban is already hurting people and tearing apart families.
• A local mosque got attacked again, and the media plays it off as another "bacon trick."
• Lindsay Lohan might be Muslim now. Is Angelina Jolie next?
• Drones do not make good hobbies.
• Linda Sarsour was one of the leaders behind the Women's March, and she deserves all our support.
• Aziz Ansari's monologue was so good, you should watch it again.
• Find out about your rights and what plans you can make at places like CAIR.

Homework Links for Episode #24

As we close out our second year of the podcast, we have a lot to reflect on. Most importantly, a Merry Muslim Christmas to All and a Happy New Year!

• First off, Taz had an amazing reading of Good Girls Marry Doctors in LA! If you still haven't gotten your copy yet, not to worry: Aunt Lute has it at a huge discount.
• We truly feel for Yasmin Seweid, the Muslim girl who falsified a police report, and hope that our communities can do better about making brown girls feel safe.
• There's a petition to out Mike Adams from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, just like he outed one of the queer Muslim students.
• Meanwhile, the agony in Aleppo continues. Daughters and wives have been asking their male relatives to kill them to avoid rape and torture from Assad's army.
• If you haven't heard already, Dylann Roof was found guilty.
• A Christmas gift from us: a syllabus on how white people can educate themselves. Please also join SURJ.
• Also, we are not your helpers. To put it in this article's words, "I am not your racial confessor."
• Here's the video for "Dear Child" that Taz co-produced, in case you felt like crying.
• Zahra appeared on BuzzFeed's "See Something, Say Something" podcast, in addition to CIIS' podcast.
• Taz also appeared on See Something, Say Something's podcast to talk about being Muslim and celebrating Christmas. 
• Taz wrote an amazing piece about the Muslim registry, and you can read it right here.

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Christmas Mubarak!

Homework Links for Episode #23

So the Elections are done, you are in one of the five stages of grief, and you want to help! Here's a links to all the things we talked about in our "Pins and Polls" podcast, and be sure to join the conversation through our hashtag! And if you are so moved, we like our Christmas gift in the form of a donation. 

• If you are the victim of a hate crime, please use this #ReportHate link at the Southern Poverty Law Center to report it. 
• How do you even begin to protect yourself before Jan 20th? Here's a great How To list to get you started. 
• Looking for your weekly list of activist things to do? Join Wall-Of-Us to get your updates! 
• Join the Movement to Oppose Trump to join movement emails by Michael Skolnik. 
• Not sure how to make calls or where to sign petitions? Use the 18MillionRising action tool right here - it's easy and  the call tool will call your phone directly and link you up.
• Looking to make lots of calls? Use this "We're His Problem Now" calling tool right here. 
• Money talks - and use #GrabYourWallet resource to know which business to boycott now. 
• Trump Administration wants to reinstate NSEERS. 
• The internment of the Japanese-Americans set a precedent for what might happen to Muslims. 
• There have been 867 hate incidences in the ten days after Election Day, reports the Southern Poverty Law Center. 
• To track the anti-Muslim hate crimes, you can visit Islamophobia.org
• Trump supporters threw fire into a car where the Muslim driver was burned. 
• Why you shouldn't use the term "Alt-Right" and if you do, this is how the AP says to use it. 
• Muslims are in solidarity with #NoDAPL. Just watch. 
• If you want to support #NoDAPL, buy and send supplies here. 
• Is Glenn Beck woke now? Read this article that implies he is - and then watch his interview with Anderson Cooper. 
• Heera Hashmi and her amazing spreadsheet of Muslims condemning things gets a Good Muslim Award. 
• SAALT cuts their ties with Southwest Airlines. 
• Get your copy of Cashmere by the Swet Shop Boys. 
• Follow the wise words and music of the awesome Humble the Poet. 

Homework Links for Episode #22

We  had such high hopes for this Election Day - check out the links below! 

• WE WON AN AWARD FROM THE OCA-GLA! Check them out, they do such great work.

• Friendly reminder that Good Girls Marry Doctors is out, and you can still buy it.

• We hung out in the YouTube LA space with Fusion, and here’s the awesome video we made.

• Did you see Zahra on MTV’s #BeyondTheWall project?

• “Nasty woman” was supposed to hurt Hillary. Turns out it isn’t.

• But Hillary’s rhetoric it is hurting Muslims. The only “front lines” we’re in are for In-N-Out Burger.

• It’s getting difficult to keep up with all the Islamophobia, so here’s a convenient timeline of hate.

• We are big fans of Hindu and India, and Muslims like us didn’t get our lightsabers like the Hindu Rally said. We demand a refund from the mosques.

• If Trump and his supporters wanted Muslims to leave America, he got what he wished for. These Muslims from North Carolina are leaving because of a hate attack on their son.

• Pence and Trump are like that couple getting ready to divorce, but not sure whether they will. Pence doesn’t agree with the Muslim ban, but Trump…

• Oh, hey, and some American domestic terrorists tried to bomb a mosque.

Homework Links for Episode #20

We were at the Comedy Comedy Festival in LA chilling in the podcast lounge when we just happened to do an episode. But what else has been happening?

• Taz went to the White House (again) for the Eid party! And she looked great.
• Also, she's in a book called Good Girls Marry Doctors, out now (20% off at Aunt Lute). 
• Did you know that August is Muslim Appreciation Month in California? No wonder we're in a drought, all those Muslims are using the water for wudhu! #CreepingSharia. 
• We got to meet Andrew Ti of the Yo, Is this Racist? podcast and record an episode with him! It's an Eid two-for-one deal.
• Two awful, awful hate crimes occurred. In New York, an imam and his assistant were shot, while a racist Texan shot an Arab-American to death after running over his mother.
• The burqini ban sucks, but it was repealed pretty quickly. We don't need any white saviors for our boobs.
• After the Wrath of Khan occurred at the DNC, Muslim women everywhere took part in #CanYouHearUsNow on Twitter. Many people also visited Humayan Khan's grave to lay flowers.
• Zahra talked to her dad about the Purvi Patel feticide case, and it was brutal.
• The Elgin Imam said he was GUILTY.

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"All the countries I've colonized" shirt. Yikes.

Zahra & Taz in the Podcast Lounge

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! 

Homework Links for Episode #16

We get real intimate in this podcast about washing and body hair. Here are some links to what we talked about: 

Zayn Malik's Album Cover

• Brussels Attack article talking about how Muslim attacker was "dangerously normal". 
• Man asked to spell his "foreign" name at the polls. 
• Muslim immigrants were deported this past month.
• Sesame Street introduces a hijabi puppet named Zari.
• School may expel Muslim youth for getting bullied. 
• Mpower and all of their petitions. 
• Bangladeshi bloggers getting murdered for secular ideas. 
• I Call My Brothers the play. 
• Zahra was guest on the Interfaith Voices podcast.
• AF3IRM Earrings of Shadow and Light Art Show (coming to NYC very soon!)

Homework Links for Episode #15

Zahra and I had a BLAST at South by Southwest - thanks to Dropbox for flying us out and making this experience happen! See, look at how happy we are in this cute video of all the Podcast Studio participants! You want those links to what we said? Check out what we talked about below: 

• Taz's chapbook is available now - Emdash & Ellipses.
• Mishthi Music - Taz's South Asian diaspora music blog.
• Taz was honored in NBC's 31 Days of Feminism for the month of women! 
• Fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad was asked to take her hijab off at #SXSW. But just look at how cool she looks on the Ellen Show. How could you? 
• Three boys were stabbed in Huntington Beach for speaking in Arabic. 
• Three people were shot in Milwaukee for speaking another language and being Brown. 
• And another three black men were shot & #OurThreeBrothers campaign started.
• Surashbhai Patel GHangout with 18MillionRising, check out the video #Justice4MrPatel.
• Protest of Trump in Chicago was led by Latino and Muslim students.
• Sanders took the Muslim vote in Michigan. 
• Feminist critique of Clinton.
• Muslim themed children's books.  
• Curious George celebrates Ramadan.
• Saqib Javed and his epic hair flip felt around the world. 
• 7% of Muslims are voting for Trump. 
• Trump's Muslim daughter - Ayesha Ali Trump. 
• Muslim women removed from plane for staring. But like, aunties stare. So get over it. 
• Taz's latest project w/ Rohin Guha, Bholo::Speak
• Zahra's YouTube Channel where you can watch her one-minute stories. 
• The Coiled Serpent from Tia Chucha Press - the Los Angeles poetry anthology Taz is in. 
• Thank you to Amanda Quraishi for moderating the Auntie Staredown!

While there, Taz was also able to check out South Asian musicians for her South Asian Diaspora site Mishthi Music. Check out the posts she wrote on the musicians here: 

• Saturday Night Killing Machine
• Kiran Gandhi
• Prateek Kuhad
• Ayes Cold
• World Hood
• Iyer
• Movin' Cool
• Horsepowar

On the mic.

Zahra & Taz at #SXSW

The Podcast Crew.

Homework: Links for Episode #14

In our sexy episode of #GoodMuslimBadMuslim we talk about a lot of fun fun stuff. Special thanks to Ellen & Eric for making this show happen this month! Follow the hot links below:

In case you needed to know what a Jinn looks like. (Source: Al-Jinn by Ahmad Sakr)

Careful - a shaitan might be in your man's urethra (Source: Al-Jinn by Ahmad Sakr)

• The organization HEART is releasing a book for Muslims on their wedding night.  
• The Joy Of Sex was first published in the 1970s. 
• For your halal sex needs we now have the Halal Sex Shop, open now in the UK. 
• Check out the book Love, Inshallah which Zahra and Taz are both in! 
• You can read the book Al-Jinn by Ahmed Sakr online here. 
• Jihotties are getting sent over to Daesh for their sexual needs.
• But the ISIS sex slaves escaped and have started their own army. 
• The sex-positive Muslim women of the Tuareg Tribe from the Sahara. 
• President Obama went to go visit a mosque for the first time of his presidency. 
• Ben Carson affirms #MuslimCrazy and says all Muslims are schizophrenic for living in a Democracy. 
• South Carolina's House government bans Shahria Law, in a sweeping original move.  
• Hijarbie Barbie is a fashionable thing now. 
• The edible burka art project from Afghani Behnaz Babazadeh is simply scrumptious.  
• Serial Podcast is back - listen to Asia McClain take the stand for Adnan Syed. 
• This Absurd FBI Site Teaches Teens to Spot Violent Extremists (very very very poorly) over at Gizmodo. 
• ACLU just put in a FOIA request to see what the FBI is doing behind Countering Violent Extremism program.