Links (For Your Reading Pleasure While I’m Not Posting)

JD - Straight Talk About Islam

Meghan - I Am Already Tired of May…

Via SunniSister, Tariq Nelson - Help Orphans (there is a family in need right now)

CripChick - The Terp From Hell (because as a human being and wishful ally, and as someone who works for an interpreting agency, this seriously made me mad)

Alajnabiya - Citrus Blossoms, and also Alajnabiya - Does This Picture Make You Hungry, and Prairie Heart of Damascus - Auja, and The Muslimah - A Family Cookbook, AND Raising Yousuf & Noor - Waiting For The Rainfall [Warning: there is at least one negative comment on the Raising Yousuf post; and the post itself is somewhat sad but beautiful.] (because I found it interesting to see all the different posts on food and spring plants coming up and spring resolve to eat healthy etc.)

Noemi at Hermana, Resist has extended the deadline for submissions for the new issue to May 15.

Also, the Islamic Writers Alliance has extended the deadline to May 15 for submissions to their annual poetry contest.

Don’t forget to check out the Radical Action blog for action alerts and ways you can get involved in fighting oppression and standing up for justice!