Bi Any Means Podcast #82: Leaving Islam and Toxic Concepts with Farah Shah

My guest for today is Farah Shah. She’s an ex-Muslim born in Pakistan who now lives in Canada, and she contributes to Kaveh Mousavi’s blog “On the Margin of Error.” Today we’re going to talk about her backstory, her writing, and why cultural appropriation is a toxic concept.

As a head’s up, the audio in this episode isn’t the best. Farah kept breaking up on her end—and yes, even with Zencastr—so I tried to salvage the audio as much as I could. You can hear about 85% of what she’s saying, but there’s about 15% that’s still hard to decipher, especially the part where I asked her about her about the article she wrote on cultural appropriation. I included a link to that article in the show notes so you can fill in the gaps yourself.

Links:
•Farah’s contributions to On the Margin of Error: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/marginoferr/author/fshah/
•“Cultural Appropriation is a Toxic Concept:” http://www.patheos.com/blogs/marginoferr/2016/11/03/guest-post-cultural-appropriation-is-a-toxic-concept/
•Farah on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Shah.F.90
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