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Ten things you should know. 1. Really tall people
freak me out. My gaze
tend to end up in weird places I'd rather not be.
You laugh, but try talking to someone's armpit or waist band
then get back at me. On the flip side really short people freaking me out, too,
or make me feel really gangster.
It depends on how short they are.
2. Ashiness is not a sin but it should be and if you've convinced yourself that you can't
or
don't get ashy and you are sadly mistaken
and need to holla at some lotion asap.
3. I get this feeling people think I'm a lot more
conservative and reserved than I actually am
or maybe they think I'm stuck up. Either way I'm neither.
I don't take myself seriously enough to be stuck up and
I have the attention span a baby monkey which
really doesn't lend itself to the discipline it takes to reserved.
4. My mom told me ever since I was little that not only does she love me
but she also really likes me and would have no problem being my best friend
even if she wasn't my mom. She usually follows that up with
but I would hate to be on your *** list.
I think that last part is her way of telling me that I'm being an ***.
5. I cuss a lot.
A whole lot. Not like sailor status
but definitely more than my grandma would approve.
I understand that there are other words, I just happen to like cuss words.
Don't judge me! 6. I had a cat I named Sexy
cuz it was funny and cuz she was.
And how hilarious is it to make a vet appointment for
Sexy Pikket. Eh.. no!
Not Sassy, I said Sexy.
7. When I was 11, I read the autobiography of Asata Shakur and and it totally changed my life
I read it over and over and over again and decided that I
wanted to be a revolutionary!
I got in a lotta trouble after that.
Totally worth it. 8. My fifth-grade teacher told my mom that I was an
excellent do that when I wanted to be but that she should probably watch me
because I was boy-crazy. Who says that?
Haters. Shortly thereafter my mom decided that I should be home schooled
Coincidence? Me thinks not. But she sure is right, though.
9. FYI, you know what's a really bad pickup line
Ey! Hey, shorty
I bet you got real pretty hair under there.
10. Sometimes, I feel like a disappointing hijabi. Like I'm not
as much as people expect. Muslims and Non-Muslims
Not as refined
as delicated or as nice
or as saint. Whatever, it's
a piece of fabric not a magic wand.
this exciting shown I went to add myself at the Kennedy Center
my daughters in addition by the way what do you want people to take
home from from this your your piece
those ten things raffia a
your story about about the wedding what he wanted
what do you want people to take home with them start with rock
well quick some just that
most some women experience what every other human being
experiences and I think the program
highlighted that it was very touching for me because I have a son
I have for Sun and I love what that woman expressed
I just can't imagine having
that experience I mean we won our son to be married when I kiss me marry but
I'll as another really work what do you want people to take away
take away from this for all I would say from experience
overall that storytelling is powerful and then when you can be engaged with
someone else
through their story and it tells you a bit about yourself
and its order colors how you interact with everyone around you
I don't know necessarily the my peace with that deep
it was there with the it went but it was a reflection
as me it was just a reflection on me at a particular moment
and these are the randomness a everyday life i think is a
key piece in this which is that these are not
stories about in in
one show I know everything about you guys doing that
right that's the point like I i'm not Muslim I'm not a woman
I'll American okay planets in our the reason why were you a
invisible ASA job today but the reason why
it's important to me and I think you hit on it is its so people can relate
stories allow someone to relate to you there's always a threat there's always a
little nugget in there they
you can see a little bit of yourself even if the person is in
from the same backer Mike I'm levin about the
the the piece about the football game yes
and Sahar that experience gave me a
a kinda like while arm I really felt
in that piece like I was at that football game but
I was seeing it that's a PLO people though
act together de Milo but saw what we want people to take on it
from the football game friendly and add
for its epic lot and he can in my line
we want people to lock out thinking I don't know anything about you
and and that's the challenge you know you feel you see me
you might be me as a representation you might see me as a symbol
but you really don't know anything about me because you don't now
my experience at this particular moment and I think for both Muslims and people
undersea it's a really important takeaway that sometimes we have to
suspend judgment
it's very difficult to pass judgment to give advice
to someone that we don't know anything about now all well
what we see what we see when we see 'em is this this otherness
in in there was nothing for me it was a guy I was eating
you know I automatically saw Sahar we wearing a job in
I house are making me all these assumptions like you okay she must be
this religious and she must think this way
your father must be this way boom-boom /url in Airways
in them but once we start telling stories in killing frenzy like
Wow I that was really dunno well
I want saw the thank you for indulging dans done this
yeah but I really
this this work deal what was the future
you know it's very nice art I had a long conversation this weekend we're kinda
going through the
you know strategic planning prize in chicago you've done my wasn't in Miami
LA what we want to do is get this out we want to do some big shows around the
country
right we hey we want to do that and then what we really want to do those Aspyr
media
to be a movement so once we do these big shows letting gauge local communities
because I know other people are picking up the debris monologue they're doing
the bottom celular se
send me some materials online auditions and people yeah totally independent
I'll this movement that used on then
you're also doing something else yet so we used to be called one well it's
called
citizen effect I'm now in the whole idea is that
anybody can be a philanthropist right don't have to be bill gates
change the world and so what we do is we empower every day people to go out and
be the change they want to see in the world in its gonna have to be
if ross today I want to thank you all for being our guest
you thank you will do don't go away
we'll be right back with a few of my closing thoughts
when we look at our society today and
experience the afterglow performances like they
he Debbie monologues really reminds us that we have
perhaps gotten past some love the
veils and barriers that make us think that maybe muslims are only those
strange people who wear different companies have clothing who
pray in the mosque in Fasken Ramadan these expressions and many more
hopefully we'll have opened our tonight years in our minds
we might look more deeply into the reality of our neighbors
to see that they are in many ways just like us
but until then I'll be living Islam
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