Anisa Khalifa

@anisa.bsky.social

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audio journo & host of The Broadside @wunc.org. culture writer. coffee addict. co-creator of podcasts dramasoverflowers.bsky.social & Muslim in Plain Sight.

image reads: If 168 people, overwhelmingly little girls, were killed in a school bombing in Israel, there is little doubt it would have been plastered all over major newspapers, led nightly broadcasts, and been asked about on the Sunday News programs. But—as the over 20,000 dead Palestinian children killed by a US-backed, Israeli genocide in Gaza affirm—Muslim and Arab life is simply not important, their children’s deaths are simply factored in, they’re collateral damage in a noble War on Terror, a perhaps regrettable “claim” that’s always “being investigated” but never held to account, much less elevated to moral outrage or sustained media scandal. The box is checked, a reporter does a write-up, aspersions are cast with “Iranian state media” or “Hamas run health ministry” qualifiers, and everyone moves on. Just another faceless three-digit number of Muslim children extinguished from existence and relegated to A11 in the US and Israel’s seemingly endless Middle East “wars.”
a photo of the today, explained podcast’s episode “I fell in love with my AI”
a black kitten in a pile of autumn leaves
A digital illustration of the remnants of an old chimney surrounded by fallen trees and brush, in the Appalachian mountains, with text over the picture that reads, "The Kingdom of the Happy Land."
A screen capture of a zoom meeting between Anisa Khalifa, Tony Hawk and Shaunda Shane. Everyone is smiling big.
A screenshot of Spotify’s best of the year in culture podcast episodes that includes ICYMI’s episode “Moo Deng is the new grumpy cat”