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“Take a break,” Moses said to the Israelites. “I’ve spoken to God, and we’re both very keen on this: you need to take Saturdays off.” “Yes, we know, we’ve heard this before,” said the Israelites. “You told us when we were around that mountain. You told us when we were building the Tabernacle. You said these exact same words only a few weeks ago. You don’t need to keep going on about it.”

On the outskirts of Des Moines, the Midwestern U.S. capital of Iowa, where partially dilapidated houses replace anonymous high-rises, sits a nondescript two-story house with a porch and overgrown yard. This is the place where it all began.

We Are Lady Parts tickled me, inspired me and I wanted more. Channel 4’s subversive six-part drama on Muslim female punk band Lady parts was finally telling a story of Muslim women as normal people who swore, who desired, who were flawed. There was a strange sense of been seen and known, watching a comedy about brown Muslim women – a mirror of myself on screen.

When I say that I’m a nihilist it never seems to really be taken seriously. To some people it seems so obvious a position that its barely worth mentioning. Other people likely dismiss me as not really being serious. I think part of the reason for this is that, outwardly, I probably don’t show much evidence of being a nihilist. I don’t have a “f*** everything!” attitude.