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@SaraSoueidan: Dear men, This is how you greet a veiled Muslim woman (a Hijabi). Hand on your chest, not offering to shake hers. 🙋

so prominent BLM activist deray mckesson just retweeted this which i think is super cool for various reasons :)))

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I did not know this. Is it OK for a non Muslim woman to shake hands with a Hijabi? Or do we do the hand on chest thing too?@popcanpoli

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hey so i don’t wear a hijab and i’m not muslim so i definitely don’t have the authority to answer this question (or any other questions i’ve been getting abt this) (i’m just a lil canadian politics blog i didn’t expect this to blow up lol)

BUT here are some tweets by the original tweeter (who wears a hijab) that clarify some things

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This is also good if you’re meeting an Orthodox Jewish person who’s not the same gender as you! Not all Orthodox Jews hold by this restriction, and many consider it a permissible exception to shake hands in a formal greeting context; I’d guess this is parallel to Ms. Soueidan’s last-quoted tweet above. And as that says, the sensible thing is to wait for initiation.

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learned something new. awesome

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sempiternal-poet

“Her and I can just sit and talk for hours or even stay quiet as we can’t keep our eyes off of each other and I will still find many beautiful things about those moments. Every moment spent with her, I cherish them completely. When she is away, nothing feels right unless she’s next to me. I need her here, always. With her is when I feel the most safest.

I know that I found my soulmate, the one person who will always be down for me and only me. She’s my happiness, my happily ever after. I am grateful, I really am. And I can sit and write constantly about how I feel, but it seems like it’s still not enough to sum up my feelings. The love I have for her has been like no other. She’s the love of my life, nothing can ever change that. I might say she owns my heart, but in reality, she is my heart.

Waking up next to her every morning is a dream come true. I won’t ever get tired of seeing her first thing when my eyes open. She makes my days better just by smiling. And when we kiss, as cliché as it sounds, there’s fireworks that explode in my body and all I can think about is how much I love her and would do anything for her in a heartbeat. She makes every nerve in my body spark with happiness, like an internal flame. She makes me warm. And I am beyond proud to be hers.”

— S.V

nicholasbrowne

“and if making love is an art I will slave over the canvas until you can’t tell the brush and the paint apart”

— Nicholas A Browne | Prose 65

smokeinfreshair

Missing Someone

It’s 2am and I miss you.

Like every night

I’ve been thinking of you.

Thinking of pulling you close

and feeling our skin on skin.

Wishing you could hear my ramblings from within.

I need

to look into your eyes

taste your lips

see your smile

feel the magic that surrounds you

run my hands through your hair

fall asleep with my arms around you.

I’ll wake

with your beautiful face

lying next to me

and look at the ceiling knowing

this is what it is to be truly

Truly happy

nicholasbrowne

““I love you” doesn’t even scratch the surface. But it’s not a bad start.”

— Nicholas A Browne

smokeinfreshair

“It does not make sense for me to love you as much as I do,

the way I do,

no love this great could stand up to reason,

but I know it’s real,

because it’s this love that keeps me breathing,

this love that makes me push harder and want to be better,

It’s this unstoppable love that will keep us strong forever”

smokeinfreshair

findmeinthedepthsoftheocean

“For me it will always be you. Regardless of what happens in the future. I have experienced too much with you for you to be labeled as just another lover. You are more than that. You are every shining star in my sky. You are the sun rise every morning and the sun set in the evening. You are wine after a long day of work. You are rest when I’m feeling tired. I cannot even begin to imagine my world without you in it. My smile is thanks to you. How lucky I am to wake up knowing that I have such an amazing person in my life, beside me, to hug, to kiss, to hold. You are my every dream come true.”

—

ourldrlovestory

twoalvacados

“I want to sleep next to you and lose track of time every night.”

— Him

theprocast

“You’re the type of person I’d like to get stuck in the rain with.”

— Nicholas A Browne

sempiternal-poet

“When I tell her that I love her, what I really mean is quite different from love. It’s something more powerful than the word itself. Because how can I tell her that the sound of her voice is the sweetest sound and I can only manage the words ‘I love you.’ How can I try to wrap up the fact that I love when she calls me, that whenever her voice comes through the phone, the excitement is clear as day.

How can I tell her that every waking moment without her, that is when I miss her the most. The need to be with her, to just be near her, to simply hear her laugh or admire her smile, that’s more than the word love. When we are together, nothing feels impossible. Because she makes me feel like I can do anything and everything. She gives me the strength to keep going.

It’s the way our souls intertwine. The way her skin feels and smells, always reminds me that I found my home. Where I am supposed to be. When she leaves my lips stained in her love and trails of warmth on my skin, I am convinced that this is more than just love. I found my missing half, the one person who and will always completes me. I hope she knows that.”

— S.V

wanderingworlds

My Promise To You

My promise to you isn’t that you will not fall, But rather that when you do I’ll help pick you up.

My promise to you isn’t a lifetime of happiness, but a world full of colour, and a paintbrush to cover the grey.

My promise to you isn’t that you’ll never feel sad, but that when you do I’ll do everything in my power not to make you laugh for a second, but to make you feel okay again for as long as possible.

My promise to you isn’t a love where nothing goes wrong, but a love that has enough trust and respect to not let arguments cause earthquakes.

My promise to you is that on days when the colors go away, I make you breakfast and we go for a walk and go to sleep early so that maybe tomorrow is a little bit better.

My promise to you is to do everything in my power to help you feel the tiniest bit better when the world feels like it’s falling down.

I know I cannot cure you and make it all go away,

but I promise I’ll do my best to make sure it doesn’t always stay.

-WanderingWorlds