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American Politics
A Good Country: My Life in Twelve Towns and the Ongoing Battle for a White America
Apr 03, 2021 by SOFIA ALI-KHAN
Circa 1977 a the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia (Image subject to copyright)
Exciting news! The book I've been writing, researching and breathing for the past four years is finally on its way. Due out by Random House in July 2022, the book is memoir braided with little known chapters in American history.
As Trump launched his campaign in 2015, Muslim families like mine were already grieving the execution-style murders of three beautiful, bright young students in North Carolina, followed by a year of unprecedented attacks on American Muslims. When the San Bernardino shooter was identified as Muslim in late 2015, and Trump used that as an opportunity to scapegoat us all, calling for a 'complete and total shutdown' of...
Exciting news! The book I've been writing, researching and breathing for the past four years is finally on its way. Due out by Random House in July 2022, the book is memoir braided with little known chapters in American history.
As Trump launched his campaign in 2015, Muslim families like mine were already grieving the execution-style murders of three beautiful, bright young students in North Carolina, followed by a year of unprecedented attacks on American Muslims. When the San Bernardino shooter was identified as Muslim in late 2015, and Trump used that as an opportunity to scapegoat us all, calling for a 'complete and total shutdown' of...
My Body
Jun 21, 2019 by SOFIA ALI-KHAN
I had an ectopic pregnancy in 2009. It was a pregnancy I wanted desperately. When the pain started, I tried to tough it out, thinking I could manage a miscarriage at home.
When the bleeding and the pain continued to worsen, I was triaged to the head of the line at the ER and immediately administered methotrexate, a cancer drug meant to break up the cells rapidly multiplying in my fallopian tube. Without the methotrexate, my fallopian tube would have burst and I could have died as a result. Despite what some idiot legislators think, ectopic pregnancies are not viable and can not be "moved into the uterus." I am super glad that methotrexate stopped those cells multiplying; and am still...
When the bleeding and the pain continued to worsen, I was triaged to the head of the line at the ER and immediately administered methotrexate, a cancer drug meant to break up the cells rapidly multiplying in my fallopian tube. Without the methotrexate, my fallopian tube would have burst and I could have died as a result. Despite what some idiot legislators think, ectopic pregnancies are not viable and can not be "moved into the uterus." I am super glad that methotrexate stopped those cells multiplying; and am still...
What We Have Now
Jun 20, 2019 by SOFIA ALI-KHAN
North Americans and Europeans have created entire countries full of climate refugees and entire countries full of refugees from brutal colonial violence in South and Central America and the Middle East. We maintain the colonization and suppression of vast underclasses of Black Americans and First Nations people (and also often "immigrants," by which we mean brown people). The only sound response, the only ethical response, is to open borders to those whose suffering we have, ourselves, created. And to engage in reconciliation and reparations to the internally colonized, including large transfers of land and power. The pressure and the brutality will not stop at our borders as climate crisis and late capitalism make it harder to sustain a middle class,...