Raifa Rafiq's guest appearances

Raifa Rafiq

What Am Politics?

Mostly Lit

Dope Black Women

Jessica Jin

Clemmie Hooper

Erin McGathy

Gabourey Sidibe

DeRay Mckesson

Bruce Carlson

Teddy Roosevelt

Arundhati Roy

Nikesh Shukla

TOMI ADEYEMI

Ndaba Mandela

Mei Fong

Lenny Henry

Lisa Hanna

Guy Gunaratne

OwlTail

Join the girls and Raifa Rafiq from the Mostly Lit podcast to discuss what it means to be a black Muslim woman, therapy, dating and diversity in literature.Raifa Rafiq is a multi award winning podcaster. She is currently host and producer of an arts podcast called This Thing Changed My Life. Raifa is a solicitor at one of the leading international law firms in the US. She has appeared at Literature Festivals, BBC radio, hosted The Cultural Frontline - a BBC World Service podcast and interviewed authors for BBC Sunday Morning Live, Waterstones and more. She is a contributing author to It's Not About The Burqa and has written for the Guardian, Refinery29, iNews and Stylist Magazine amongst others.The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts and Olivia Cope.You can follow Dope Black Women online at @DopeBlackWomen1 on Instagram, @DopeBlackWomen on Twitter and Dope Black Women on Facebook Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join the girls and Raifa Rafiq from the Mostly Lit podcast to discuss what it means to be a black Muslim woman, therapy, dating and diversity in literature.Raifa Rafiq is a multi award winning podcaster. She is currently host and producer of an arts podcast called This Thing Changed My Life. Raifa is a solicitor at one of the leading international law firms in the US. She has appeared at Literature Festivals, BBC radio, hosted The Cultural Frontline - a BBC World Service podcast and interviewed authors for BBC Sunday Morning Live, Waterstones and more. She is a contributing author to It's Not About The Burqa and has written for the Guardian, Refinery29, iNews and Stylist Magazine amongst others.The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts and Olivia Cope.You can follow Dope Black Women online at @DopeBlackWomen1 on Instagram, @DopeBlackWomen on Twitter and Dope Black Women on Facebook Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Break all the rules, don’t listen to men & enjoy yourself with Raifa Rafiq

Welcome to Mostly Lit!-This minisode is in dedication of It's Not About The Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race, edited by Miriam Khan with an exclusive listen to the essay Not Just A Black Muslim Woman, by Mostly Lit co-host - Raifa Rafiq.-Buy It's Not About The Burqa here.Use Instagram and Twitter with your thoughts on the essays and the book!-When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter?In 2016, Mariam Khan read that David Cameron had linked the radicalization of Muslim men to the ‘traditional submissiveness’ of Muslim women. Mariam felt pretty sure she didn’t know a single Muslim woman who would describe herself that way. Why was she hearing about Muslim women from people who were neither Muslim, nor female?Years later the state of the national discourse has deteriorated even further, and Muslim women’s voices are still pushed to the fringes – the figures leading the discussion are white and male.Taking one of the most politicized and misused words associated with Muslim women and Islamophobia, It’s Not About the Burqa is poised to change all that. Here are voices you won’t see represented in the national news headlines: seventeen Muslim women speaking frankly about the hijab and wavering faith, about love and divorce, about feminism, queer identity, sex, and the twin threats of a disapproving community and a racist country. With a mix of British and international women writers, from activist Mona Eltahawy's definition of a revolution to journalist and broadcaster Saima Mir telling the story of her experience of arranged marriage, from author Sufiya Ahmed on her Islamic feminist icon to playwright Afshan D'souza-Lodhi's moving piece about her relationship with her hijab, these essays are funny, warm, sometimes sad, and often angry, and each of them is a passionate declaration calling time on the oppression, the lazy stereotyping, the misogyny and the Islamophobia.What does it mean, exactly, to be a Muslim woman in the West today? According to the media, it’s all about the burqa.Here’s what it’s really about.-Intro Music by: @StuffDeejSays----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Get involved!-Don't forget to tweet us your thoughts on the episode and send us an email for Culture Questions!-Rate and review us on iTunes, Acast, Spotify, Soundcloud and YouTube!-Follow and message us on:Twitter - @mostlylitInstagram - @mostlylitpodYouTube - www.youtube.com/channel/UCNSap_m48BXPUViJofbUYCQEmail - mostlylit@gmail.comWebsite: www.mostly-lit.com-#Books #Literature #Culture #Reading Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to Mostly Lit!-This minisode is in dedication of It's Not About The Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race, edited by Miriam Khan with an exclusive listen to the essay Not Just A Black Muslim Woman, by Mostly Lit co-host - Raifa Rafiq.-Buy It's Not About The Burqa <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07GWNH5F7/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&amp;btkr=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.Use Instagram and Twitter with your thoughts on the essays and the book!-When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter?In 2016, Mariam Khan read that David Cameron had linked the radicalization of Muslim men to the ‘traditional submissiveness’ of Muslim women. Mariam felt pretty sure she didn’t know a single Muslim woman who would describe herself that way. Why was she hearing about Muslim women from people who were neither Muslim, nor female?Years later the state of the national discourse has deteriorated even further, and Muslim women’s voices are still pushed to the fringes – the figures leading the discussion are white and male.Taking one of the most politicized and misused words associated with Muslim women and Islamophobia, It’s Not About the Burqa is poised to change all that. Here are voices you won’t see represented in the national news headlines: seventeen Muslim women speaking frankly about the hijab and wavering faith, about love and divorce, about feminism, queer identity, sex, and the twin threats of a disapproving community and a racist country. With a mix of British and international women writers, from activist Mona Eltahawy's definition of a revolution to journalist and broadcaster Saima Mir telling the story of her experience of arranged marriage, from author Sufiya Ahmed on her Islamic feminist icon to playwright Afshan D'souza-Lodhi's moving piece about her relationship with her hijab, these essays are funny, warm, sometimes sad, and often angry, and each of them is a passionate declaration calling time on the oppression, the lazy stereotyping, the misogyny and the Islamophobia.What does it mean, exactly, to be a Muslim woman in the West today? According to the media, it’s all about the burqa.Here’s what it’s really about.-Intro Music by: @<a href="https://soundcloud.com/StuffDeejSays" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">StuffDeejSays</a>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Get involved!-Don't forget to tweet us your thoughts on the episode and send us an email for Culture Questions!-Rate and review us on iTunes, Acast, Spotify, Soundcloud and YouTube!-Follow and message us on:Twitter - @<a href="https://soundcloud.com/mostlylit" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mostlylit</a>Instagram - @<a href="https://soundcloud.com/mostlylitpod" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mostlylitpod</a>YouTube - <a href="https://exit.sc/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fchannel%2FUCNSap_m48BXPUViJofbUYCQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.youtube.com/channel/UCNSap_m48BXPUViJofbUYCQ</a>Email - <a href="mailto:mostlylit@gmail.com">mostlylit@gmail.com</a>Website: <a href="https://exit.sc/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mostly-lit.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mostly-lit.com</a>-<a href="https://soundcloud.com/tags/Books" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a href="https://soundcloud.com/tags/Literature" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">#Literature</a> <a href="https://soundcloud.com/tags/Culture" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">#Culture</a> <a href="https://soundcloud.com/tags/Reading" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">#Reading</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Minisode: Not Just A Black, Muslim Woman by Raifa Rafiq for It's Not About The Burqa

This week Steve and Richie (two straight, white, middle class, cisgender men) teach you about diversity. Lol jk of course not. That’d be ridiculous. Instead, we talk to AlexReads and Raifa Rafiq from the Mostly Lit podcast. We discuss representation, political correctness, freedom of speech, whether the UK will ever have a non white PM and much more. Mostly Lit on Twitter Dawn Butler on Twitter Recommended reading/watching Children of Blood and Bone Black-ish Brit(ish)  Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race Hold Tight The Tiger Hunter Follow us: Twitter | Facebook Theme music by Supermarket Love: Soundcloud | Spotify | iTunes

This week Steve and Richie (two straight, white, middle class, cisgender men) teach you about diversity. Lol jk of course not. That’d be ridiculous. Instead, we talk to AlexReads and Raifa Rafiq from the <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mostlylitpod" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mostly Lit podcast</a>. We discuss representation, political correctness, freedom of speech, whether the UK will ever have a non white PM and much more. <a href="https://twitter.com/mostlylit?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mostly Lit on Twitter</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DawnButlerBrent" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dawn Butler on Twitter</a> Recommended reading/watching <a href="https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/tomi-adeyemi/children-of-blood-and-bone" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Children of Blood and Bone</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-ish" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Black-ish</a> <a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1112508/brit-ish/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Brit(ish)</a> <a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1112508/brit-ish/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/why-im-no-longer-talking-to-white-people-about-race-9781408870570/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race</a> <a href="https://www.influxpress.com/hold-tight/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hold Tight</a> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3853830/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_15" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Tiger Hunter</a> Follow us: <a href="https://twitter.com/whatampolitics" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/whatampolitics/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a> Theme music by Supermarket Love: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/supermarketlove" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Soundcloud</a> | <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/5zCu0CM9BMBKjI2EWC2DgH" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/supermarket-love/id560396418" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iTunes</a>

41 - What Am Diversity? (w/ AlexReads and Raifa Rafiq of Mostly Lit)