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Friendly reminder that even if Biden wins tomorrow, the fight is long from over.
Black lives still matter.
Capitalism still kills.
The earth is still on fire.
LGBTQ+ rights are still at stake.
Islamphobia and Antisemitism still exist.
We cannot stop fighting just because Biden wins. We need to go out stronger. Never stop fighting for what you believe in.
Heads up, don’t use this “wlw picrew,” it’s made by @ morgana_fem, a radfem. If you can’t read Russian, that bio says “evil radfem,” and her connected art Twitter account says “radfem” in English for further proof.
ADDITIONALLY this is the post she used to announce it. Transphobic AND Islamophobic.
Reblog this version.
I checked, and there’s also no options for dark skin or natural hair either.
it uses the radfem lesbian pride flag also. watch out for that one
On June the 14th the constitutional court in Belgium stated that prohibition of wearing religious signs in an establishment of higher education does not constitute a violation of freedom of religion nor a violation of the right to human dignity which includes the right to education. This declaration meant that Hijab-wearing women don’t have the right to get higher education. Some will, unfortunately, give up on their dreams and some will be forced to remove the hijab to get an education. “I was in a school establishment where wearing a hijab was forbidden. Therefore, every morning, when I go to school, I had to take it off and put it in my bag. I had the feeling that I was enduring microaggressions from a system that was supposed to protect me”. #HijabisFightBack was a way to protest this discrimination. ✊🏽 The right to education should not be negotiable. (source)
A gentle reminder to all that the first university the world ever saw was founded by a Muslim woman. Today, we have to beg to be able to wear a hijab and get an education at the same time — both of which are fundamental rights that our women are being stripped of.
School dress codes aren’t only sexists, but there’s also racist and islamophobic.
I (First Nations, Mohawk) used to have hair past my chest but my middle school forced me to cut my hair because “boys couldn’t have hair past the tips of the ear” (I’m not a boy either, but they assigned me ‘boy’ as a gender) but even when I begged them to let me keep my hair because of spiritual beliefs, they forced me to cut it. A classic move of the white school system against native children. I got a referral everyday for the 65 days I refused to cut my hair. I cried for two weeks after the principal took scissors to my hair. I’m still growing it back.
My best friend (who is an aboriginal Egyptian) was once told to remove her hijab (also a gift I had given her) because “hats weren’t allowed” (a mixture of racism and islamophobia), she reluctantly took it off.
In middle school again, my friend Nemo ( First Nations, Navajo) was told she couldn’t wear her traditional clothing on her 13 birthday, celebrating her reaching puberty. She was sent home and forced to spend her birthday alone while her parents worked.
Tomorrow is my 18th birthday, an important life event in Mohawk culture (becoming an adult) and I want to wear my traditional clothes to school, especially because I’ll have to celebrate all alone this year since I live far away from my nation. Even though my school doesn’t have uniforms or a strict dress code, I’m afraid they’ll tell me that my clothes or very light face paint are “distracting” and tell me to take off my traditional jewellery (headband, choker, bracelets) or wash off the face paint.
I’m sure these are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to racism in the school dress code, and general school systems. White culture is enforced in everything from the dress code to the curriculum.
many european countries explicitly prohibit wearing headscarves like the hijab in schools, too
Let people wear culturally or religiously significant clothing!!!
This post needs to be shared in all the blogs.
If you’re writing Muslim characters and you aren’t yourself Muslim: for the LOVE OF GOD, I am begging you to stop depicting our men as oppressive and our women as oppressed. This harmful stereotype is deeply pervasive in Western media, and it can rear its head in the most inconspicuous* ways. Muslims are not a monolith, and all stereotyping does is suggest that we are.
With a rich and globally significant history dating back to the 7th century, today’s Muslims comprise nearly 25% of the world’s population. In 2019, that’s almost two billion different life stories – and those of us who experience them deserve inclusion in fiction… However, as I’ve mentioned before: inclusion is not the same thing as writing about the lived experience. Please leave the latter to OwnVoices writers instead of appropriating our experiences – our stories and our history – for your benefit.
(This has been a PSA.)
*Oppression narratives need not be obvious for them to be harmful. Consider how power is balanced in your work, and irrespective of your conclusion, hire a (critical and rigorous) sensitivity reader for an expert opinion.
