Eman Abdelhadi is a PhD student in Sociology at New York University. Her research is on gender and the processes of community-building in American Islam. She’s Arab, Muslim, socialist and queer–her activism resides, with her, at the intersection of those identities.
When I heard about the Orlando massacre, my first thought was “I will not get to grieve this. I will not get to mourn these lives.” The next two days, I...