In just over a week since Easter Sunday blasts in Sri Lanka, the meaning of hijab is changing in the island nation; Maithripala Sirisena govt’s ban on ‘face veil’ reaffirms the structural oppression of Muslim women Back in 2009, then French president Nicolas Sarkozy said hijabs were a sign of women’s debasement and began the process of banning them. In …
A day after graduating from high school, Renea Gray left the Inyabito Chapter of the Navajo reservation in northwestern New Mexico and headed west to Las Vegas, Nevada. “I have experienced harassment, abuse and beatings all because people didn’t like the fact that I was who I was,” Renea explains, linking her own later experiences of homelessness, poverty, violence and …
