Have you ever wanted to just spend an hour spilling tea with
@LaurenJauregui
about everything wrong with the world?
Well, not to brag, but one of our most-requested episodes is finally here 🔥
Stream ANTIDOTE 🧪 on all platforms:
when i was a little girl i NEVER imagined seeing a woman that looked like me in a music vid, let alone that it would be ME one day! TY
@adamlevine
for inviting me to be part of this. the new
@maroon5
#girlslikeyou
video ft.
@iamcardib
is OUT NOW!!
#maroon5
Happy birthday to my soul sister
@LaurenJauregui
💗 You are living proof that realness can’t be replicated, authentic energy can’t be faked, and progress can only be made possible with love 💫✨
What happened to
#MohammadAnwar
is a nightmare for any Muslim daughter.
So many of our immigrant parents are working self-made small businesses & side hustles just to provide for their families. To imagine a father not returning home over a food delivery is devastating.
We’re throwing an exclusive VIP zoom party for
@AMANI2020
volunteers with none other than singer & activist renegade
@laurenjauregui
😍🔥 Kick it with us online TOMORROW!
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Sorry friends, I’ve run out of words tonight.
My people are currently being exterminated as you read this.
My government is actively on the ground perpetuating the extermination.
There’s really not much left to say.
They can kill us but we will never die.
The last 6 hours of my life have been draining & traumatizing.
Today I got arrested for the first time because a man that insisted he was “first class” felt entitled to blow past me at TSA security, then have me removed from our
@AmericanAir
flight bc he “felt uncomfortable.”
Our last pic together when the universe brought us together in Hollywood to celebrate my bday a few weeks ago and today we celebrate the birthday of my literal soul sister. The realest most authentic spirit 💛🌙 💫
Love you to the moon and back
@laurenjauregui
A few weeks ago my mom received a suspicious package at the facility where she was getting treated for COVID-19.
No one outside of our immediate family knows where she was being treated. The package was addressed to her, name misspelled, to her exact room number.
baby
@LaurenJauregui
i’m so freaking proud of you. been watching you breathe life into this moment for years and i’m so happy the rest of the world gets to share in this gift now too.
just the beginning. congratulations 🤍
I had the craziest experience in TSA this morning.
An entitled white man behind me insisted on cutting me in line because I was “still taking my shoes off.”
When I said he could wait like everyone else, he started going off about how he’s “pre check” and “first class” 1/3
Just so y’all know, when I repeatedly asserted my constitutional right to keep my hijab on under arrest, I heard one cop ask another, “Didn’t we have to deal with this w/ that Sikh guy the other day?”
When you stand up for yourself & your rights, you do so for everyone after you
Iranian women cutting their hair in protest of forced hijab laws.
French Muslim women protesting for their right to wear it.
This is no contradiction. Muslim women across the world are fighting for the same thing: the right to choose.
@ELLEmagazine
It’s unacceptable that the county is willing to risk my family’s safety in the current climate, even rejecting an FBI request.
It’s unacceptable that Black & brown people can’t trust our institutions to protect us.
Even with my privilege & visibility protection is still denied
Y’all know if I, a VEILED MUSLIM WOMAN, had the audacity to throw a temper tantrum and run through TSA security, I would have gotten BODIED. I would have been detained, missed my flight, possibly gotten charged, etc.
We need to resurrect the
@muslimgirl
#ShitTSASays
column. 3/3
We just got kicked out of documenting the Trump rally in Tampa because attendees heard me and Lauren speaking Arabic. They called security over and said we were “uninvited.”
The crowd started chanting “four more years” as we were being led out.
I'm proud to represent a coalition of underrepresented communities in what's nothing less than a fight for our lives.
Our campaign is already historic. Now it’s time to make democracy happen.
Are you in?
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We’re hosting a Zoom party w/
@LaurenJauregui
for volunteers that phonebank 3+ hours this week!
✔️ Sign up @
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✔️ Phonebank 3+ hrs ➡️ you‘ll get the private link to hang w/ us on 7/4 @ 7PM EST
Thanks
@TeenVogue
for always choosing to amplify the voices of girls who don't get a chance to be heard in the conversation. On my decision to decline
@revlon
's award featuring
@GalGadot
-
Everyone wants to talk about Muslim countries that enforce hijab.
Western countries that force women to TAKE OFF hijab is not only the same form of control, but worse: it’s systemic anti-Muslim hate.
Forcing minor girls from a vulnerable minority to reveal their bodies is SICK
The French Senate just banned girls under 18 and accompanying mothers from wearing hijab in schools.
The obsession with how we dress has nothing to do with “liberation” and everything to do with control and hate.
This is what oppression really looks like for Muslim women.
Largest Palestine protest in UK history. Half a million ❤️
Sending salams to the whole
@muslimgirl
army that said hi in the streets today. I love you 🫶🏼
He then proceeded to not only shove his things before mine, but then RUN THROUGH THE MACHINE and TSA did NOTHING!
Not only did they not do anything, a TSA officer had the audacity to tell ME to “cut it out.” 2/3
TW
Last night, I received this chilling phone call. A death threat.
This isn’t my first death threat and I hesitated to share it, but it’s necessary to see the common experience of Muslims & minorities when hate is normalized by political leaders.
This is what it feels like.
🚨🚨 EXTENDED ALERT 🚨🚨
We’ve been inundated with messages from you all 🔥🔥 so since it’s a holiday weekend we are rescheduling our Zoom w/
@LaurenJauregui
to TOMORROW. SAME TIME. 7 PM EST.
See you there.
GENOCIDE THEN. GENOCIDE NOW. 🍉
Here’s what you need to know:
- This “5-day ceasefire” hasn’t even happened. Palestinians in Gaza are still reporting ongoing massacres while Americans are distracted by the holiday weekend.
- This is not a win. We need a PERMANENT ceasefire for…
Picked up my university card today.
I don’t take for granted the heavy responsibility and honor to be the granddaughter of Nakba survivors from Palestine of 1948, all the way to studying human rights in the halls of power.
They tried to bury us & didn’t know we were seeds.
This is NOT a joke. I received a call on my personal cell # at the beginning of our campaign from someone with our home addresses threatening to kill me and my family and “shove pork down our throats.”
TW
Last night, I received this chilling phone call. A death threat.
This isn’t my first death threat and I hesitated to share it, but it’s necessary to see the common experience of Muslims & minorities when hate is normalized by political leaders.
This is what it feels like.
🚨 FINAL 2 HOURS 🚨
Thank you to all our incredible volunteers that put WORK into this phonebank this weekend! 👊🏽 We hit all-time highs! 🔥
Can’t wait to celebrate you all at our AMANI 2020 x
@LaurenJauregui
Pre-Election Kickoff 🔥
THANK YOU to the 100s of volunteers that spent their Friday kicking back w/ us in our
@AMANI2020
x
@LaurenJauregui
Volunteer Zoom Party! 😍
I’m so inspired by you all & more fired up than ever that our generation will change the world 🔥🔥
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Here’s a clip from our exclusive
@AMANI2020
x
@laurenjauregui
volunteer party of my girl dropping knowledge about the inherent racism of placing corporate interests above the people.
Text AMANI to 22999 to find out how you can link with us.
📹 Clip by our volunteer Joey Dennis
On a trip to France 3 years ago the border police forced me to remove my scarf to enter the country even though I wore a scarf in my passport photo.
No government should regulate how a woman can dress, whether to keep it on or take it off.
#handsoffmyhijab
#FranceHijabBan
The police closed the case. They never answered our Qs about the package. The FBI requested our county prosecutor’s office to look into the case. I just found out they rejected the request.
The county where I’m running against one of the most powerful politicians in the state.
We immediately reported the package to local authorities. Bomb squad was called + the FBI because of our open case w/ a previous death threat. It was an empty electrical box.
The police gave us their theory about how this could have been “an accident.” NO FURTHER INVESTIGATION.
WHO’S READY? Our exclusive Volunteer Zoom Party with my talented friend, singer and activist
@LaurenJauregui
is at 6 PM EST today. 🔥
Invitation-only for
@AMANI2020
volunteers 🔗 Last chance to sign up:
If you think the violence happening in
#SheikhJarrah
#Palestine
looks unsettlingly familiar to police brutality in the U.S, that’s because the Israeli military trains our police departments.
Don’t forget: Palestinians were tweeting survival tips to
#Ferguson
residents in 2015.
On the day of
@MichelleObama
’s 2008 DNC speech I spent HOURS as a teen calling into
@cspan
(lol I was fun)
My call FINALLY got thru & I geeked out about how inspired I was to see a WOC role model like her on stage. That was the very first time I ever heard my voice on CSPAN.
drunk man yelling at the top of his lungs about jesus and judgment day outside of penn station stops long enough to lower his voice and say to me, "hey, you're cute."
@amenaofficial
@Loreal
We have to ask why it's OK for us to have spokeswomen like
@galgadot
for
@revlon
, who use their platform to express support for Israel's military against Palestinian women, while we take down spokeswomen like Amena for their vocal support of Palestinian women, children, & people.
Guys, we can literally SEE what calls and texts you’re making. If you’re faking responses to get a link to the event on Saturday, we’re banning you from the system.
Let’s make it as clear as possible:
Today is EID. It is our ISLAMIC HOLIDAY at the end of the holiest month of the year for Muslims after fasting for 30 days and nights.
Israel purposely chose today to bomb the unarmed, civilian population of Gaza with illegal mass weapons.
I was a child when I heard my first racial slur, when an elementary school classmate taunted me that “my people throw rocks at tanks.”
My people throw rocks at TANKS.
Here is the excerpt from my first novel, “
@muslimgirl
: A Coming of Age.”
For the first time mass media can't control the narrative around Palestine.
No one can hide the abuse from social media. Our phones have become our biggest weapons. The power is shifting right before our eyes.
Please DO NOT underestimate your impact.
#SheikhJarrah
#Jerusalem