M Train

On our second stop, host Ahmed Ali Akbar and producer Shirin Barghi take the M Train to BRIC House in Downtown Brooklyn for a panel discussion centered on Muslims in politics. Our guests for the night were Shahana Hanif, New York City Council Candidate, Sadaf Jaffer, Mayor of Montgomery County in New Jersey (and first Muslim woman elected mayor in America), and Mohammad Missouri, Executive Director of JetPAC. We talked about the Muslim bloc swinging leftwards, confronting Islamophobic trolls who live in your communities, and the challenges of representing a group as diverse as American Muslims.

For more from New York City Council Candidate Shahana Hanif, visit https://shahanafrombk.com. For more on Mayor Sadaf Jaffer, visit https://www.sadafjaffer.com. For more on Jet-PAC and Muhammad’s work, visit https://www.jet-pac.com/about-us.

•M Train is hosted and produced by @radbrowndads, produced by @Shebe86, edited by @MBasilRahim, and executive produced by @sacharmathias. This episode featured music composed by Myra Al-Rahim and from Freesound.

•SSSS is on Twitter and Facebook @seesomething, and on Patreon at patreon.com/ahmedaliakbar. Thanks to our patrons for supporting the show.

•This miniseries was made with the generous help of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Arts Building Bridges Program. You can learn about their mission here: https://www.ddcf.org/what-we-fund/building-bridges.

•M Train is a new six-part miniseries from See Something, Say Something and BRIC Radio, in which we take you to different New York City neighborhoods to uncover the stories of American Muslims that can be found on and off the subway line. For more information on this and all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit www.bricartsmedia.org/radio and follow us on twitter @BRICTV.

Welcome aboard the M Train – a new six-part miniseries from See Something, Say Something and BRIC Radio. In each episode, host Ahmed Ali Akbar and producer Shirin Barghi will take you to a different New York City neighborhood to uncover the stories of American Muslims that can be found on and off the subway line. Our debut episode focuses on the work of two sex educators redefining the place of sex and intimacy in Islam.

For our first stop, we head to Brooklyn to speak to Sid Azmi about her journey from radiation therapy to business woman and sex educator, running a “educated pleasure shop” in Park Slope. Then, we speak to sex-ed teacher and co-creator of the storytelling performance "Coming Out Muslim: Radical Acts of Love," Wazina Zondon, about navigating queerness, sex, and Islam.

For more from Sid Azmi, visit: https://www.pleasenyc.com. For more Wazina Zondon visit https://comingoutmuslim.com, http://www.muslimalliance.org and follow her @wazinazondon.

•M Train is hosted and produced by @radbrowndads, produced by @Shebe86, edited by @MBasilRahim, and executive produced by @sacharmathias. This episode featured music composed by Myra Al-Rahim and from Freesound.

•SSSS is on Twitter and Facebook @seesomething, and on Patreon at patreon.com/ahmedaliakbar. Thanks to our patrons for supporting the show.

•This miniseries was made with the generous help of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Arts Building Bridges Program. You can learn about their mission here: https://www.ddcf.org/what-we-fund/building-bridges.

•For more information on this and all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit www.bricartsmedia.org/radio and follow us on twitter @BRICradio and @BRICTV.