Living Alone Is a Revolutionary Act
By claiming a room of my own, I’ve gone against the grain
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5 min readJun 27, 2019
Moving out on my own was among one of the most disgraceful things I could’ve done as a daughter of Bangladeshi Muslim immigrant parents — we’re supposed to live at home until we complete half our deen: the belief in Islam that when you get married, you complete half your religious obligation.