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Sep 1, 2024 | 
substack.com | Fatimah Asghar
I am a writer and a filmmaker. Author of IF THEY COME FOR US & writer & co-creator of Brown Girls Web Series. queer & muslim.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
people.com | Esme Mazzeo |Fatimah Asghar
Shortlist titles for The Carol Shields Prize For Fiction. Photo: The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction The Shortlist for The 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is in! A month after announcing the longlist, PEOPLE can exclusively announce the shortlist for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction honoring English-language literary novels, short story collections and graphic novels by women and non-binary authors. Eleanor Catton, Claudia Dey, Kim Coleman Foote, V. V.
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Dec 21, 2023 | 
autostraddle.com | Fatimah Asghar
On October 24th, I wrote an article for an international news media brand after one of their editors had reached out and asked me to write a call to queer people to be in solidarity with Palestine. After receiving backlash for publishing other Pro-Palestinian pieces, the magazine decided that they weren’t going to publish my piece. The magazine had lost over seven figures of funding and had to hire a Crisis PR Media team due to the threats they were facing for their pro-Palestinian stance.
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Jun 2, 2023 | 
bookbrowse.com | Fatimah Asghar
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Cathryn Conroy
A Brilliant, but Devastating, Novel Written in Fierce Prose That Sings Like Lyrical Poetry
This is a brilliant novel written in fierce prose that sings like lyrical poetry.
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May 19, 2023 | 
wcsufm.org | Tilda Wilson |Fatimah Asghar
Science communicator, author, and YouTuber Hank Green announced in a video that he's been diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, a blood cancer.
In the YouTube video, the 43-year-old told the story of his diagnosis. "When you're in the American health care system, you don't expect things to move quick," he said, recounting getting tested.
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May 15, 2023 | 
ideastream.org | Tilda Wilson |Fatimah Asghar
At the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival, the "Sheep to Shawl" challenge is simultaneously cut-throat competitive and warm and fuzzy.
Each team is made up of one sheep and five people: one shearer, three spinners, and a weaver. The team has three hours to shear the sheep, card the wool, spin the wool into yarn, and then weave that yarn into an award-winning shawl.
Preparation is the secret to success, says Margie Wright, team captain of The Fidget Spinners.
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May 12, 2023 | 
ideastream.org | Tilda Wilson |Fatimah Asghar
Fans of the video game series The Legend of Zelda are doing their best to get out of work today so they can play the newest installment in the franchise: Tears of the Kingdom.
I found out about this phenomenon when my sister, Claire Stucki, told me she was taking the day off Friday. I asked what she'd be telling her boss, and she told me she's allowed to work a week with four ten-hour days once a month at her office, resulting in a long weekend.
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May 5, 2023 | 
kgou.org | Lara Downes |Fatimah Asghar
It's pretty unusual for a 32-year-old chef to open his own restaurant in Manhattan. For The New York Times to choose it as the best restaurant in the city five months after it opens? Well, that's kind of crazy.
But then, Chef Kwame Onwuachi's rise to superstar chefdom has been a little crazy. Drugs and gangs were part of a tough upbringing in the South Bronx. After getting kicked out of college, he moved to Louisiana and cooked for a crew cleaning up the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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May 5, 2023 | 
kgou.org | Justin Chang |Fatimah Asghar
Over the past several months I've seen a few unusually heartfelt movies about male friendship — a subject that Hollywood likes to milk for laughs but rarely treats with the sincerity and sensitivity it deserves. So it's been refreshing to encounter films that have recently bucked the trend, like Armageddon Time and the Oscar-nominated Close.
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May 5, 2023 | 
inkl.com | Fatimah Asghar
Asghar's When We Were Sisters is a coming-of-age novel that follows three orphaned Muslim-American siblings left to raise one another in the aftermath of their parents' death. The prize jury wrote that Asghar "weaves narrative threads as exacting and spare as luminous poems," and their novel is "head-turning in its experimentations."When We Were Sisters reflects some of Ashgar's own experiences both as a queer South Asian Muslim and a person whose parents died when they were young.
