Season 2
Oct. 28, 2021
Unheard: Deaf Muslim Resources
Which one of us has met a deaf Muslim? Chances are, very few, but it’s most likely because we aren’t creating spaces where we can, as Andaleeb Elayan, Executive Director of Global Deaf Muslim discusses today. We learn A LOT a...
Oct. 8, 2021
SERIES Disability Awareness: Autism & MUHSEN
Dilshad Ali shares a day in the life of a mom raising an adult child with autism, inspiring and teaching us today. Tune in to hear all the things we take for granted, and all the beautiful things we miss. Rather than perpetu...
Sept. 16, 2021
Queer Muslim Kids
We get a lot of SOS messages from queer Muslim kids and what better way to answer them than by bringing on Erum Rani, founder of Iftikhar Community, who shares her journey of coming out and what that meant mentally and spirit...
Sept. 10, 2021
SERIES Queer Muslims: Queer Muslim Moms
Shenaaz Janmohamed of Queer Crescent joins us today to discuss her experiences as an LGBTQi+ person. Find out how that informs her exploration of and work towards social justice and equity. What do I do if my kid comes out? H...
Feb. 18, 2021
Exploring Sex & Intimacy with Islamic Spiritual Perspectives
Sameera Qureshi of Sexual Health for Muslims joins us today to discuss the effects of colonized gender-based fallacies have on Muslim sexual health and practice. Not only does she have comprehensive sexual education from an I...
Feb. 11, 2021
Love & Marriage Series: Breaking Free of Baggage
Sadia Jalali, LMFT from Muslim Bliss joins us today to talk about how to develop ourselves before and during marriage in order to make it work. Gone are the days when marriage was the panacea for all things: mental illness, n...
Feb. 4, 2021
How to Produce Protest Music
We got a lot of flack last year for "getting too political" because white supremacy, fascism, and corruption aren't in our lane. Our argument has always been that as Muslim American moms, politics MATTERS to us because it dir...
Jan. 21, 2021
How to Mother a Medically Complex Child
This month is all about hard things, and one of the hardest mommy jobs is taking care of medically complex children. Moms don't get a break to start, and these moms NEVER get to stop. How do we step up to be better sisters to...
Jan. 14, 2021
Bonus Episode: 100th Episode Special
"Would you be willing to come on a podcast and talk about that?" Zaiba asked Uzma almost 3 years ago about racial profiling of Muslim Americans by TSA. "Sure. What do I have to do?" Uzma had no idea what a podcast was, or tha...
Jan. 7, 2021
SERIES How-to: The Road from and to Jannah
Trigger alert: child loss Abeeha Hassan joins us today to discuss the very recent stillbirth of her newborn. She talks to us about how she grieved her daughter and talks about normalizing it contrary to what most Muslim cultu...
Dec. 31, 2020
The Science of Art Therapy
Shazia Siddiqi MA, LPC, ATR-BC of Let’s Art About It studio rejoins us today to talk about art therapy, a misunderstood or poorly understood therapeutic modality for trauma, anxiety, or depression. She’s here to explain the s...
Dec. 25, 2020
Naseeha Mental Health and Meeting Teen Needs
Summayah Poonah joins us today to talk about an important resource to assist our Muslim teens’ mental health needs. She is Head of Operations at Naseeha Mental Health, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting communi...
Dec. 17, 2020
How You Doin? The State of Our Emotional Cups
This year has brought a lot of changes we weren’t ready for, moms, and this episode brings on Dr. Saba Maroof, MD, a very busy psychiatrist whose work tripled as a result of the pandemic! She’s seen a lot and has had her puls...
Dec. 10, 2020
Muslim Mental Health Series: Childhood Anxiety
Dr. Rukhsana Chaudhry comes on today to kick off our mental health series and gives us SO MUCH insight into our anxieties and how to deal with our kids’. Let’s face it: this pandemic has kicked our collective butts and we’ve ...
Dec. 3, 2020
Election 2020 Part IV: Acceptance
Zaiba and Uzma discuss the final stage of Kubler Ross’grief: Acceptance today. They skipped over bargaining for religious reasons! As Muslims, “acceptance” doesn’t mean lie down and relax. The work is NOT DONE! There’s much t...
Nov. 26, 2020
Election 2020 Part III: Vitamin G for Gratitude Thanksgiving Episode
The next step in grief in this Part III of our election series is depression, which may feel worse today because it’s a holiday in pandemic, and it doesn’t look like what we’re used to. With social distancing protocols, many ...
Nov. 19, 2020
Election 2020: The Stages of Grief Part II-Anger
Since they couldn’t find a Muslim mom who voted for Trump, Zaiba recruited her husband, Zafar, to return to the podcast for this episode to help understand the 35% of Muslims surveyed by the Associated Press who said that the...
Nov. 5, 2020
Pregnancy and Preventive Women's Health
Dr. Hodon joins us today to talk about how to maintain pregnancy health during a pandemic when most of us are barraged with conflicting medical advice and everyone and their president wants to be the doctor giving it. While p...
Oct. 29, 2020
Hasan vs. Jafri on Roe vs. Wade
Zaiba and Uzma ended up having to have a conversation about abortion, as well as their religious and feminist views on the topic. This is not a scholarly episode, rather a discourse between friends on personal, very individua...
Oct. 15, 2020
Mothering Mental Fortitude and Wellness in Islam
We continue our Women’s Health series by focusing on our spiritual health today with Zahra Aljabri, founder of Practical Muslim. She joins us on the podcast today to discuss developing our relationships with Allah SWT in orde...
Oct. 8, 2020
Muslim Women's Health Series: From Menstrual Pain to Endometriosis: Revealing a Diagnosis
Dr. Tayyaba rejoins us today on the podcast to talk about endometriosis, a condition that can cause pelvic pain in 10% of women in the WORLD, regardless of whether or not they still have periods. This affects quality of life ...
Oct. 2, 2020
In Pursuit of Knowledge
Let’s grieve Ruth Bader Ginsburg this week and talk about feminism as we end our month of Female Islamic Scholarship with Reem Shaikh. Reem is a graduate student at the Harvard School of Divinity who speaks to us about her si...
Sept. 24, 2020
Coming Closer to Quran
Dr. Saadia Mian joins us today to discuss her unexpected journey toward memorization of the Quran, and love for it. As moms, we generally have the primary burden of Quranic study for our kids, but we lose our own relationship...
Sept. 17, 2020
Female Scholars and Safe Spaces
Anse Tamara Gray, founder of Rabata, an online institute for and by Muslim women to educate themselves in Islam. She’s also an experienced mom who has a lot to share with moms about allying with their kids as part of their mo...