HeyJaredJanan Delgado
A Muslim woman, wife and mother of three. PhD in the Study of Religion examining networks of care, kinship, childhood, motherhood, step-parenthood and interfaith familial dynamics through the lens of custody law in 9th-12th century al-Andalus.
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Seeing You is Enough (opens the original)
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We go to this Qur’an conference every year. It’s my favorite family vacation. I mostly don’t get to attend any talks. I don’t learn much. Barely take any notes. But I always leave with my heart full.Still, I wanted to back out.This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<in
Exactly Where I Need to Be (opens the original)
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Changing Abuela's Diaper (opens the original)
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On the second or third day after our arrival in Quito, my mother came up to the third floor to get Abuelita ready for bed. “Janan!” She summoned me, a diaper the size of an adult t-shirt in her hand. “Come watch how I change Abuelita because soon I’m going to need you to help. I can’t come upstairs like before because of my knees.”Abuelita and us –my mother’s three oldest children—became floor neighbors a few years after my mother’s remarriage, when the house expansion happened. First my oldest
Greetings from Ecuador (opens the original)
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In Ecuador death feels closer. I got here a week ago, and hardly a day goes by without me thinking that an earthquake could wipe us all out in a few seconds, as it just did in Venezuela. That could have been us. That could be us. I know my stepmom was thinking about it when I visited my father’s house in the countryside last weekend. “These winds are not normal,” she said. Outside the kitchen window, sturdy avocado trees swayed violently, hurling their fruit to the parched ground as though holdi
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