thisissomenoise #008: It Goes Both Ways
A story about purpose, feminism, Islam and privilege.
thisissomenoise #008: It Goes Both Ways launched on April 28, 2016 with 55 votes, #1,405 of 4,301 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.
What it does
Jessica Ripper is a white American with blonde hair, blue eyes and a home in Northern California. Yet, to many in Pakistan, she’s an Islamic-gospel musician who plays the tabla. In the 700-year-old Sufi-singing tradition of Qawwali, she’s a female trailblazer shattering century-old glass ceilings from Sufi shrine to Sufi shrine. And everywhere else, she’s a statistical anomaly, a bizarre outlier. Did fate direct Ripper to her path as one of the world’s only white female western qawwali players? Or was it chance and opportunity? Side note: They’re working on a documentary project about qawwali music. See here . Download Flipboard on your phone, connect to strong WiFi and open flip.it/tabla…from thisissomenoise.com
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