A quiet memorial
A record of a publication that made room for Muslim women, faith, and difficult conversations.
For years, altMuslimah gathered essays, reporting, conversations, and personal reflection on gender, Islam, family, culture, politics, and public life. This page preserves a small marker for that work and for the writers who made it worth reading.
What It Was
altMuslimah, often called altM, began from community conversations about Muslim women and gender in Islam, then grew into an online forum with contributors writing from personal, journalistic, academic, and cultural perspectives.
Its best pieces resisted easy caricature. They made space for disagreement, doubt, humor, devotion, critique, family stories, political argument, and everyday experience.
The Work
Essays and commentary
Writers explored gender, spirituality, identity, marriage, work, politics, race, sexuality, and community life with nuance and candor.
Editorial community
Editors shaped drafts, guided contributors, and built a forum where emerging and established voices could be read seriously.
Public conversation
The site helped widen conversations about Muslim women beyond stereotype, spectacle, and second-hand narration.
People Who Carried the Work
This page cannot capture everyone who wrote, edited, produced, or argued something into better shape. It is meant to honor the staff, editors, podcasters, columnists, contributors, and readers who gave the site its life.
- Zehra Rizavi
- Hafsa Ahmad
- Kaitlin Montgomery
- Makkah Ali
- Ikhlas Saleem
- Uzma Mariam Ahmed
- Firdaus Arastu
- Margari Aziza Hill
- Sabina Khan-Ibarra
- Najiyah Khan
- Nadia Mohammad
- Shazia Kamal Farook
- Shazia Riaz
- Elizabeth Y. Hanson
- Sofia Ali-Khan
- Samar Kaukab
Archive Note
The original dynamic site has been taken offline. Backups are being retained where possible, and this static page is here so the domain does not disappear into a blank error page.
If altMuslimah mattered to you, the best tribute is to keep reading, citing, hiring, publishing, and directly supporting the writers whose labor made spaces like this possible.