Soul Food, Lady Mahogany and Lady Mis-Understood have swayed me this evening.
This was at The Islamic Heritage Festival by the Delaware.
Lady Mahogany and Lady Mis-Understood are rap-performers.
As I sat munching over the delicious soul food by the river, the crowd swayed to their music.
I saw women wearing head-bands and head covers dance and sway to music.
In the world I grew up-a south asian Muslim home, such a free wheeling mixing of men and women was largely forbidden.
Fine fine..the women wore hijab and the rest.
But as I sat and swayed, I wondered what I had not experienced transiting through the male and female spaces as they existed.
Words strangely sounded familiar and so were names-Nasiha, Mariya, Parshaheen...
I want to meet Lady Mahogany and Lady Mis-Understood again.
I want to sit by the river and sway.
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