Bodybuilder Shirin Nobahari is Iran’s first female bodybuilder. Recently, she was arrested for posting “nude pictures” of her training. In this video, she shares her experience while arrested, and the social taboos that surround her in Iran. These Muslim women aren’t about to let someone harass them or anyone else. They are the creators of […]

I will start this post positioning myself as a cissexual and heterosexual Binizaa–Latinx woman who converted to Islam about ten years ago. I am also an immigrant: a settler to the territories of the Algonquin, Cree, Anishinabe, Haudenosaunee and Métis nations, among others. The positioning is important because to discuss white supremacy is not only […]

In the wake of President Donald Trump’s executive order banning immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries (including Iran), Hoda Katebi, a 22 year old fashion blogger, finds herself in the position of having to explain her culture to people all over again. Three queer women from North Carolina discuss how the Trump administration is affecting their […]