My name is Carla Hayden. I'm a young biracial and queer-identified woman living in the town of Ottawa, Province of Ontario. I was born in the City of Belfast, Northern Ireland, to Maeve Hayden, an Irish Catholic mother and Djamal Adewale, a Nigerian father who converted from Islam to Atheism. Presently, I study business administration at Carleton University....
What's up people? The name is Amina Hussein and I'm a young black woman of Somali descent living in the City of Ottawa, Ontario. I attend Algonquin College, where I study police foundations. I want to be a police officer someday. In the eyes of the world, I'm just another pious Muslim gal, wearing the hijab and the traditional Islamic long skirt just like th...
According to conventional wisdom about hijab-wearing Muslim girls, I'm supposed to be soft and sweet. The name is Saleema Hussein and I'm a young woman hailing from the City of Red Deer, Alberta, with a story to share with you. I'm biracial, born to Imran Hussein, an immigrant father from Pakistan, and Salome Gutierrez, a Colombian-born Canadian author. I've...
After making love, I like to look at my lover as he sleeps. Is that a weird thing? I certainly don't think so. My name is Alexandra Abdullah and I'm a young woman of Lebanese descent living in the City of Ottawa, province of Ontario. Presently, I'm in the residence area at Carleton University, looking at my boyfriend Charles Jean Duchene as he sleeps. He's s...
"Karima, I always knew that there was something wrong with you, now that you've come out as a lesbian, my suspicions totally made sense," Stephanie Miller said, and the pretty-faced, snarkly mean blonde looked at the tall, athletic, short-haired and muscular young Black Muslim woman and smirked. Hands on her hips, Karima Jaber faced her sworn enemy. Since th...
My name is Annabelle Peggy Simpson, but you may call me Sister Peg. Everybody still does. Even though I'm not a Nun anymore. I was born and raised in the City of Trenton, State of New Jersey. With my Teutonic good looks ( I stand six feet two inches tall, with blonde hair and pale blue eyes ) I could have been a model or an actress but I went in another dire...
"Malik, dammit, you mean, you really like my fat ass, farts and all?" Jewel Rosenthal asked with a big grin on her face, looking at her boyfriend Malik Ali with a mixture of incredulity and amusement. Inside Jewel's dorm, on the south side of Ottawa, things were heating up, thanks to a certain Muslim gentleman who made it downright impossible for the usually...
If you're Black and male in North America you cast a giant shadow over everything and everyone around you, whether you're short like Kevin Hart, strong like Mike Tyson or tower over everyone else like Shaquille O'Neal. How you see yourself and how the world sees you are two completely different things. Sad but true. Take me for example. My name is Omar Saint...
Everyone wears a mask in today's world, and nobody ever truly shows you their true face. It's an indisputable fact about human nature. Take our friend Mona Abdul for example. She's the Yemeni-born wife of imam Muhammad Hassan, a prominent cleric in the Muslim community of metropolitan Ottawa, Ontario. Five-foot-nine, chubby, busty and wide-hipped, with dark...
You see me walking down the street, wearing my Hijab and long robe, and you make all kinds of erroneous assumptions about me. I am not oppressed, I am not a religious freak, I am not a terrorist. I am a Muslim woman, pure and simple. Get that through your head. I have the same thoughts, feelings and needs, whether physical, emotional or sexual ( yes, Muslim...