Have a friggen masters degree and a male colleague has been explaining how I should get married immediately because men are threatened by educated women and that my biological clock is ticking. Um, excuse me spending a huge chunk of my life studying biomedicine for my existing family's…Â
Happy my very tame story was put up. Thanks Buzzfeed. Disclosure: my "prom" wasn't in america and we didn't have SATs, also it was an international school so they had to consider various holidays, and it was more like a formal social if anything
Most of my friends went but I couldn't afford prom so I stayed back to do homework at a study room in the area. There were at least 10 other muslim boys and girls who were studying for exams and couldn't go so we all bonded over it and revelled in the idea of saving hundreds of dollars.…Â
One time a kid asked to leave for the bathroom only to come back running with blood dripping like a faucet from his nose, which then got in his teeth and stained his shirt. He left a blood trail from the bathroom all the way to class before we rushed him to the nurse's office.
Did Ahmed not deserve a life?
Ahmed never hurt a fly
Ahmed never knew the politicians he was murdered by
Certain times Ahmed wished that he could be a bird and fly
Beyond the sky
Escape the curse of birth that he was burdened by
Ahmed never grew to let your racism internalise
Water…Â
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