Pride Mubarak • Happy Pride
Digital Photography depicting two persons wearing a blue and red burqa. They are holding hands and collectively immersing with the rainbow, without fear. Have a beautiful, power, pride and pleasure packed Pride month. Take care of yourselves and each other.
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Wear a mask.
Wash your hands.
Practice physical distancing.
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“My name is Anam. I began to wear a hijab earlier this year after attending Islamic lectures with my naani (grandmother) in the colony. My mother does not cover her hair and neither do my sisters. Why did I start wearing a hijab? Bus! Mairee marzee! (My wish!)” This encounter with Anam was quite eye-opening for me. For years I have criticized acts of veiling employed by girl children. I have seen girls within family and the larger community struggle with taking on and removing the hijab. I am aware that societal pressure and coercion can influence younger girls to take on veils over their hair, without fully comprehending the complex reasons behind their acts of veiling. However, as can be seen through this collaboration with Anam, the women in Anam’s immediate family, like her mother and sisters, choose not to cover their hair. There is no compulsion in Anam’s living environment for her to veil her hair. Her father, the patriarch of the family, is more keen on educating his daughters than worrying about whether their hair is veiled or not. Yet, Anam has decided to take on the hijab. I had to check my own biases here, because before meeting Anam, I had already presumed that her choice to veil her hair was imposed on her by her family members, but this was not the case. Join us at the Emergence Symposium: Arts & Equity, Leading Social Change (Humber College, Toronto) on November 21, 2018 where I will be presenting my artistic and academic research on veiling practices. Register now on EventBrite.
**Please note that the event has already taken place and this blog post is recording previously posted content from the artist’s Instagram account.
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The Worlds Within
Incorporating architecture photography from public spaces in Morocco and Pakistan into black burqas.
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