Women's Empowherment- A woman's place is in the revolution

So a conversation that comes up a lot during Halloween season is the concept of "sexy" costumes for women. Men have regular costumes and everything is simply made sexy for women. It is infuriating to those who want to actually be scary or those who want a little less showing. Especially in a season where there are plenty of drunk pervs roaming the streets, not everyone feels safe wearing such costumes. So in spirit of one my favorite holidays, lets talk what "sexy" looks like for an empowered woman. 1. Women's iconic WW2 Symbol of Strength Of course what better way to represent the strength and courage of women then to be the Iconic image itself? During a time when women pretended to be men to fight for their country and at the same time hold up the fort and keep the economy going by running all the companies and working in the industries that were considered "jobs for men", the iconic simple of women and their ability to overcome all obstacles i...

So for those that don't know, I am an Ismaili Muslim and like the Christian concept of Sunday school, we have Religious education on Saturdays. Now the teachers are expected to go through training to ensure that we teach the students facts and accurate information rather then opinions or perspectives. However, when I went into this training I realized that there was a fault in the training itself. Within teaching the facts, we somehow twisted the perspective based on emotional bias. When I was pitted against the trainer and the other teachers trying to explain my perspective, I felt something inside of me shift. The perspective you teach the students, regardless of the intent, does impact their view and emotional outlook on life because your emotional outlook on life will end up showing. Now why am I mentioning this on my blog today and what does it have to do with anything? Well as women we end up separating "our" problems with "their" problems based on race...