# Crossing Borders with Carla Power Conversations Across Faiths and Cultures. Page: Feed: --- ## [Quit Bickering About Helmets and Whether Matt Damon Looks Greek: Why Christopher Nolan's 'Odyssey' Captures the Spirit of 2026](https://carlaepower.substack.com/p/quit-bickering-about-helmets-and) _2026-08-05 · Carla Power_ Beyond the pyrotechnics, the blockbuster speaks to where we find ourselves: limbo ## [Soft Power Baby](https://carlaepower.substack.com/p/soft-power-baby) _2026-07-22 · Carla Power_ I grew up in an era when America assumed sending aid and expertise overseas was a way to win hearts, minds, and business. Now that it's over, what's left? ## [American Purdah: To Counter Christian Nationalism, Listen to Muslim Women](https://carlaepower.substack.com/p/american-purdah-to-counter-christian) _2026-07-08 · Carla Power_ From the ob-gyn’s office to federal websites, American women can feel the effects of rising Christian nationalism, and its attempts to push women back into neotrad roles. ## [Young Muslim Tradwife: An Excerpt from The Lady Imam](https://carlaepower.substack.com/p/young-muslim-tradwife-an-excerpt) _2026-06-24 · Carla Power_ In her early days as a Muslim, amina wadud was a Salafi, determined to practice Islam by traditionalists' rules, and to build the best Islamic marriage she could. ## [The Lady Imam - Available Now!](https://carlaepower.substack.com/p/the-lady-imam-available-now) _2026-06-17 · Carla Power_ The Lady Imam is available wherever you buy books ## [What I'm Learning in Little Egypt](https://carlaepower.substack.com/p/what-im-learning-in-little-egypt) _2026-06-10 · Carla Power_ Is Middle America Really One Nation Under a White Christian God, Running on Lost Causes, Fossil Fuels, and Busch Light? ## [On Tripping over a Gaza-Shaped Hole in My Local London Park: Do You End a Friendship over a Genocide?](https://carlaepower.substack.com/p/on-tripping-over-a-gaza-shaped-hole) _2026-05-27 · Carla Power_ We’d meant to avoid the subject, my friend and I... ## [Revolutions of the Soul: Six Journeys of the Muslim Pioneer amina wadud, in Photos](https://carlaepower.substack.com/p/revolutions-of-the-soul-six-journeys) _2026-05-13 · Carla Power_ A glimpse of the dynamic faith, raging controversies, and steadfast courage that made amina wadud a groundbreaking voice in Islam. ## [On Passport Bros and Real Live Women](https://carlaepower.substack.com/p/on-passport-bros-and-real-live-women) _2026-04-29 · Carla Power_ The Passport Bro trend churns the stomach and twists the heart, mashing up misogyny, loneliness, and national and personal economic inequalities ## [Two Proofs of Life for Iranian Civilization](https://carlaepower.substack.com/p/two-proofs-of-life-for-iranian-civilization) _2026-04-15 · Carla Power_ Iranian voices on resisting erasure, and my own attempt to avoid West-splaining the Qur'an to a group of Islamic clerics in Qom ## [Transcript-Driven Stock Discovery (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/8jgCcB60sIFC) _2026-04-15 · **Sponsored**_ Ranked, evidence-backed watchlists from indexed executive transcripts for 1–2 quarter horizons ## [Miami: A City of Sunny Certainty, or a Sunburnt Icarus?](https://carlaepower.substack.com/p/miami-a-city-of-sunny-certainty-or) _2026-04-01 · Carla Power_ On a weekend of toggling between enjoying a city's vibe, and reality checks ## [The Rebel Angels of Our Nature: Why amina wadud’s Faith-Based Activism Is What the World Needs Now](https://carlaepower.substack.com/p/the-rebel-angels-of-our-nature-why) _2026-03-18 · Carla Power_ Like Walt Whitman, amina wadud contains multitudes, showing us fresh ways to think about what it means to be a Muslim, and what it means to be American. ## [American Amnesia and the Islamic Republic's Memory](https://carlaepower.substack.com/p/american-amnesia-and-the-islamic) _2026-03-05 · Carla Power_ What happens when an Administration with no memory bombs a regime built on keeping memories alive? ## [The Right to Toast Bread: On Fagging and Other Engines of Male Status](https://carlaepower.substack.com/p/the-right-to-toast-bread-on-fagging) _2026-02-18 · Carla Power_ How Humiliation Helps Elites Reproduce Themselves ## [ICE and ISIS: A Tale of Two Recruiting Drives](https://carlaepower.substack.com/p/ice-and-isis-a-tale-of-two-recruiting) _2026-02-04 · Carla Power_ The ICE recruiting ad is clearly not an Islamic jihadi worldview, at first glance. The powder-blue leatherette in the 1981 Ford van ad gives Burt Reynolds vibes. But stay with me here for a second… ## [The Opposite of Scrolling](https://carlaepower.substack.com/p/the-opposite-of-scrolling) _2026-01-21 · Carla Power_ Bobbing in the warm sea of scrolling, bloated on content, I was buoyed by the floaties of rage and fear. ## [For Courage in the Coming Year, A Bouquet of Brave, Strange, and Witty Resistance Tactics](https://carlaepower.substack.com/p/for-courage-in-the-coming-year-a) _2026-01-07 · Carla Power_ Fear leads you to curl up, getting you little more than a close-up of your own navel. Courage, even simply witnessed, can get you to straighten up and stare out. ## [On Judy Garland’s Voice, Holiday Rituals and Populist Pipe Dreams: Why Looking Back Needs to Hurt a Little Bit](https://carlaepower.substack.com/p/on-judy-garlands-voice-holiday-rituals) _2025-12-24 · Carla Power_ Nostalgia is the opposite of sexy, the quilted housecoat of emotions. It’s also a holiday tradition. ## [The King, the Beatles, and I: On Becoming British](https://carlaepower.substack.com/p/the-king-the-beatles-and-i-on-becoming) _2025-12-10 · Carla Power_ Geniuses and Migrants Help a Culture See Itself Anew ## [Refer a Friend, Earn Rewards (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/uyzWS4FwaPP4) _2025-12-10 · **Sponsored**_ Earn rewards when friends get the Graphite Business Card through your referral. ## [National Security Threat or National Treasure? Often, It’s All About Timing.](https://carlaepower.substack.com/p/national-security-threat-or-national) _2025-11-26 · Carla Power_ To the many risks of being alive in 2025—pandemics, floods, wildfires, and wars, both nuclear and “conventional,” in that creepily sanitized word—we need to add another: we all risk becoming terrorists.