Ya Heard?

What else did you expect from us? We promised season 3 would be bigger and better and badder than ever, so we’re delivering. In addition to our new website (developed by our boss-friend at Laeta Consulting), we’re bringing this newsletter to your inbox: Another Tab. Twice a month, we’ll share the tabs we have open to add to your queue. Some tabs you’ll check right away, others will sit open for months. Either way, we promise they’ll either make you “haha” at work, say “hmmm” or inspire you to share with a friend.

Also, in case you’ve missed it we’re, I.N.D.E.P.E.N.D.E.N.T.

Do you know what that mean?

Ya girls are now the official owners of Identity Politics, LLC. insha'Allah, we’re only going up from here.

We're Listening 

We’re obsessed with Jenna Wortham and Wesley Morris from Still Processing. They recently launched a new season, check it out. Makkah also won’t shut up about the Modern Love podcast, so we’re listening to their new episodes too. The most recent one on supporting a spouse with dementia is guaranteed to make you tear up.

What We Got Open 

• We've both got The Weather Channel open as a permanent tab. Prayers are constantly going out to victims of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

• Makkah: I am somehow not embarrassed to admit that I am LOVING this Vanity Fair Gossip Girl 10 year anniversary retrospective. Learning from Gossip Girl that #MoMoney really does bring about #MoProblems was as important to my college education as, like, going to class. This show dramatized popularity and class struggles among white hot teens in New York and I am forever grateful that it existed. #SorryIAintSorry

• Ikhlas: I don’t read poetry, rarely ever listen to it and one time in fifth grade thought I was a poet but quickly realized I was not. All that to say, I actually think poets change the world, and am sure new Philly youth poet laureate Husnaa Hashim will be no different. When you’re done reading about Husnaa listen to our episode on poetry, identity and art.

• Makkah: In case you haven’t heard (because you live under a rock or have been practicing denial as self-care), I have some new neighbors in DC. Because I’m petty, I was thrilled af to see that some of my neighbors have had a little bit of trouble fitting in. Apparently playing up your glamorous white femininity can only get you so far, Ivanka.

• Ikhlas: Admittedly, I have yet to open this tab - but my college roomie sent me this the other day: “To some of my favorite game-changing gals (& guys) around the world: Sharing an inspiring essay by Reese Witherspoon about female ambition and its power to change the world.”

• Makkah: This summer, I was lucky enough to attend the Black Muslim Psychology Conference where I met some of the inspiring youth activists from the Young Muslim Collective in Minneapolis. Teen Vogue just profiled their efforts and highlighted some of the key issues that they are up against in their communities.

• Ikhlas: TIME Magazine highlights 46 women who broke the glass ceiling in its “Firsts” series. Ilhan Omar to Selena Gomez make the list.

• Makkah: I get excited when people are interested in the diversity of the American Muslim experience, so I was first in line to read about this new study on Latino Muslims in the United States, the first comprehensive survey of its kind.

We Just Think It's Funny How...

• Ikhlas: ...folks are excited about the possibility of Amazon coming to their city, but all I see ($$$) is Atlanta’s cost of living continue to skyrocket.

• Makkah: ...in the midst of a national disaster and death and destruction and chaos, our lighter-than-me friends are somehow still able to find the time to criminalize black folks.

Shoutout of the Week 

We really wish we were going to Well-Read Black Girl’s inaugural writers’ conference and festival this weekend. Shoutout to Glory Edim, the founder of Well-Read Black Girl. If you’re going to the festival, buy some books for us!