Sorry, Not Sorry

  HAJI MOHAMED DAWJEE

  CAPE TOWN, FEBRUARY 2018

  Notes and references

  We don’t really write what we like

  p. 2 ‘the most potent weapon …’: Steve Biko, I Write What I Like (digital edn, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978), p. 74.

  p. 3 ‘So as a prelude …’: Ibid.

  Begging to be white?

  p. 37 ‘Race doesn’t really exist for you …’: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah (USA: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013), p. 429.

  And how the women of Islam did slay

  p. 49 Bibi: Arabic feminine title of honour and rank.

  p. 49 Women Kurdish soldiers are the best ISIS deterrents: Norma Costello, ‘Isis in Iraq: The female fighters that strike fear into Jihadis – because they’ll rob them of paradise’, Independent, 10 April 2016, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-in-iraq-the-women-kurd-and-yazidi-fighters-that-put-the-fear-into-jihadis-because-theyll-rob-a6977761.html, last accessed January 2018.

  p. 56 ‘Islam is a religion where your temple is not a building …’: International Association of Sufism, http://ias.org/sufism/women-in-islam/, last accessed January 2018.

  Why I’m down with Downton Abbey

  p. 97 Reasons why Downton Abbey is so good: Brian Moylan, ‘Why everyone in the universe should watch Downton Abbey’, Gawker, 9 January 2012, http://gawker.com/5874387/why-everyone-in-the-universe-should-watch-downton-abbey, last accessed January 2018.

  p. 99 Race-based trauma is a ‘natural byproduct …’: Monnica Williams, interviewed by Jenna Wortham in ‘Racism’s psychological toll’, New York Times, 24 June 2015, https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/magazine/racisms-psychological-toll.html, last accessed January 2018.

  p. 101 ‘White people hold the power …’: James Baldwin, ‘Letter from a region in my mind’, The New Yorker, 17 November 1962, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/11/17/letter-from-a-region-in-my-mind, last accessed January 2018.

  My mother, the true radical

  p. 118 It lacked ‘substance’: Christina Cauterucci, ‘Jennifer Lopez’s new video is a sad premonition of the future of feminism’, Slate, 6 May 2016, http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/05/06/jennifer_lopez_s_new_ain_t_your_mama_video_is_a_sad_premonition_of_the_future.html, last accessed January 2018.

  A better life with Bollywood

  p. 134 ‘I feel I have gone back in past’: Lata Mangeshkar, as quoted in The Rediff Interview with Yash Chopra, Rediff, 14 September 2004, http://www.rediff.com/movies/2004/sep/14yash.htm, last accessed January 2018.

  Joining a cult is a terrible idea

  p. 164 Turning Point workshop: Insight Training Centre website, http://www.insighttc.co.za/index.php/the-workshops/stage-1-turning-point, last accessed January 2018.

  p. 166 Royee Banai bio: Insight Training Centre website, http://www.insighttc.co.za/index.php/about-us/trainer-royee-banai, last accessed January 2018.

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