In late June, 22-year-old Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan — a third-generation Pakistani living in the United Kingdom — stood on stage at the Last Word Festival in Leeds and delivered her most recent ode: “This will not be a Muslims are like us poem/I refuse to be respectable,” she began. “Instead, love us when we are lazy/Love us when we are poor/Love us high as kites, unemployed, joy-riding, time-wasting, failing at school/Love us filthy, without the right color passport, without the right sounding English.” Continue reading.
