On My Own
Image by Erik Madigan Heck A beautiful, painful and honest piece by Hafsa Arain at the website This Recording: I have to face the truth: I might never be with someone. I might never have a boyfriend,...
View ArticleDescription: Single Female/Superpower: Writing
If you are a single woman who seriously writes, this can be a serious issue. I am a writer with a few books in bookstores around the United States. One book is translated into French and resides in...
View ArticleWhy am I not married?
Last year, I was invited to an interfaith banquet to be recognized for my efforts in weightlifting clothing accommodation. Although I was busy with competitions and training, the organizers had...
View ArticleThe Big M
Last year, while I was interning in New York City and commuting via public transit daily, I had an awkward moment on the subway. An older Muslim woman noticed my Palestinian-flag bracelet and spoke to...
View ArticleFriday love: The Single Muslimah
We’re loving this Tumblr page, The Single Muslimah – full of hilarious gifs and spot on observations about the curious, confusing and oftentimes amusing experience of being a single Muslim woman. We...
View ArticleMystical Manifestations
I’d forgotten that the psychic said he was going to come to me in the spring, with a briefcase in hand. I was so heavy with grief that the thought that I’d ever be able to feel love in my heart again...
View ArticleThe Single Girl’s Survival Guide for Desi Weddings
It was exactly five years to the day since the wedding I wrote about in my story for the Love, Inshallah anthology, “Punk Drunk Love.” Here I was again for another Desi wedding in the same suburban...
View ArticleGirl Bachelor
“I never shall be an old maid, because I have elected to be a Girl Bachelor. And as to regretting this choice, you know the saying of the philosopher, ‘whether you marry or not, you will regret it.’” –...
View ArticleLove Letter to Single Sisters
Dear Single Sisters, Lately, I’ve run into a lot of fabulous, beautiful single women who can’t find someone brave enough to show up for them. I am one of those women, just like you. We are beautiful,...
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