#place of hijab

[shivology]

okay. one day i will stop talking about islam but it's not gonna be today. anyway, to overcorrect on post-9/11 islamophobia, a lot of liberal spaces infested by the types of muslims who will call you islamophobic and disrespectful of their culture when you call them out on their homophobia or transphobia and who will deny the infestations of misogyny and antiblackness and antisemitism in their (our) communities because Um Actually You Don't Get The Full Context, have started to almost . idk the word but like, deify? whitewash? sugarcoat? islam as if it's like. One Inherently Good Singular Ideology Misunderstood By White People For Racism Reasons. when yes, obviously, islam and muslims who live in the west are oppressed, but that's not all islam is. and it's such disservice to act like Islam cannot be oppressive to so many people who do live in the global south living either directly under islamist rule or just in conservative muslim-majority communities, to say that no actually we're a peaceful religion and we WORSHIP women actually! like to gaslight people who have actually been forced to wear the hijab, who have actually been victims of misogynistic honor-based violence, who have actually been pulled out of school to be married off to a 50 year old man because "the prophet did it so it's islamically ok!"

and it's tricky to talk about because you don't want to fuel islamophobia (which, like antisemitism, is obviously a legitimate tangible thing, but also can be weaponized) also it is so fucking ANNOYINGGGGG to watch discourse on islam be led by people who have never experienced oppression fueled by islam like sure you're a good ally to guys like mohamed hijab but also people like sara hegazy mahsa amini etc etc all these people are real people who were tangibly hurt in the name of islam. there is a reason why a man like andrew tate felt it was ok for a man like him to convert to islam and there is a reason why so many Muslim men welcomed him with open fucking arms. you're sure not a good ally to queer people and atheists and christians and jews who have been tangibly hurt in the name of islam.

and we can discuss the doctrine itself, we can talk about the effects of colonialism, we can talk about how no actually islam doesn't say that lets not conflate between ~ real religion and corrupt regimes but the thing issssss. religion is literally what you make of it. it is an idea. there is a book and you take what you take from it. there is no such thing as "the correct way" to practice religion, especially when all Abrahamic religions have the capacity to be peaceful AND the capacity to be violent. what is REAL representation? who are you to say what real representation is, anyway? who decides what is extremism? why do you, personally, get to pick and choose who and what represents a certain religion?

islam, like Every Religion Ever, manifests itself in different ways depending on ur social context. whether you have the means to exact oppression via religion or whether you are disenfranchised because you're an ethnic or racial or religious minority. religion has and always will be used both as a tool for good (community building, etc) or for evil (daaesh, lol) it's not about religion itself. it's about how you use it and its place in the social pecking order.

anyway. tl;dr. i hate oversimplication and i hate overcorrection. quite frankly, it's orientalist and racist, to assume that an organized religion followed by over a billion people in most countries in the world, all believe the same beliefs. even if u think these beliefs are "good." here's over a billion of us and some of us are bound to be cunts! statistically.

[xwhitepolar]

wip: burkini!!!!

[ostensiblyfunctional]

Okay so probably a lot of people know by now that I go feral for redesigns of Wendy that are Black. And I've been thinking of how I would do her visual redesign. And. I have not done any research so I don't know if this is possible or something someone would actually do, please tell me to get shot into the sun if I'm overstepping or doing a no-no, but I'm obsessed with Wendy's hair reflecting different states of the sky. Like if she's the Sky Dragon Slayer then incorporate the sky in its multitude of states!

Like. To reiterate, I have not done any research into Black hairstyles. But I have a vision in my head that's had me by the throat for the last couple weeks. Wendy's hair being a gradient going from night-dark navy at her roots, to sky blue, to cloud-white at the tips. In box braids, but the ends aren't braided and they poof out, and because the ends of her hair are white they look like little clouds! Maybe she has clear/glittery beads near her scalp so that her darker blue hair looks like it has stars in it? This sounds like a hairstyle that would take such a long time to actually do, but oh my goodness the mental image I have looks so amazing and is this? Is this anything??

[llegato]

listen man i get the feeling of wanting ur muslim kid to be around other muslim kids so they dont feel isolated or something but dude. islamic schools are not worth it

[magnoliamyrrh]

ppl think im crazy when i say i felt more comfortable in the hood and its like nah no i stand by that. apart from the prepetual gunshots, the broken window from a robbery, and our cars being broken into a whole lot,,,,, its not just that i miss having neighbors who wed actually talk to and invite us to grills and whod be loud and laughing and screaming and playing music and generally i felt a lot more at home and sane,,,,, but also that noone gave a shit if i wore a hijab or niqab. you just didnt get stared at. if anything there were so many muslims that wed always bumb into each other and greet each other and get into conversations

[onlyfangz]

i feel like some people only care about breaking down gender norms when it's a transgender person presenting as their gender. "why wont you wear skirts?" im a dude. "why arent you okay with being called girlie (gn)?" im a dude. "why dont you want to wear makeup?" im a dude. "but those things dont make you any less of a dude!!" GET OFF MY DICK, CHELSEA.

[chickenisamazing]

Okay @ the hijabis how do you keep your undercap from shifting throughout the day

[faithful-diaries]

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[shidouryusm]

Everyone praises women when they set boundaries with “my body, my choice” until a hijabi muslim woman enters the equation 😒

[screamingfromuz]

So a while back I was talking with muslin friend of mine about hair covers (and hijab fashion) and she asked me how some Jewish women get their headcovers stand tall and stable (and I mean the ones that goes extra).

the answer is sponges.

specifically made sponges. There are headcovers that have sponges attached.

use that information as you thing fit

[whimsycore]

I told my mom dinner was ready and she told me “indeed has jobs on it”. Old people are so out of touch wht does that even. MEAN. like yea I bet they do but if those are fake jobs or not in state how does it help

[irul]

i rlly wanna go to eid prayers this yr but i cant 😔

[neembu]

iranian folk song

[americiumam]

support ALL fat women, not just the ones with hourglass figures and smooth skin. support fat women with apron bellies, with small boobs, with flat butts, with visible rolls, with arm flaps, with thick necks, with no jawline, with “multiple” chins. support fat women with big shoulders, fat women who’s waists don’t go in, who have stretch marks on their armpits and arms and stomach, not just on their chest and thighs or butts or “attractive” places.

support disabled fat women. support fat women of color. support fat trans women. support fat women when they wear crop tops and low rise jeans and bikinis and support fat women when they wear hijab and abayas. support fat women who are advocates and support fat women who are just trying to live their lives in peace

not just the women you’re attracted to. not just the ones you find “palatable”, not just the ones who are “thick”. all of us.

[nyan-bynary]

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[makingqueerhistory]

Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir

Lamya H

When fourteen-year-old Lamya H realizes she has a crush on her teacher--her female teacher--she covers up her attraction, an attraction she can't yet name, by playing up her roles as overachiever and class clown. Born in South Asia, she moved to the Middle East at a young age and has spent years feeling out of place, like her own desires and dreams don't matter, and it's easier to hide in plain sight. To disappear. But one day in Quran class, she reads a passage about Maryam that changes everything: When Maryam learned that she was pregnant, she insisted no man had touched her. Could Maryam, uninterested in men, be . . . like Lamya? From that moment on, Lamya makes sense of her struggles and triumphs by comparing her experiences with some of the most famous stories in the Quran. She juxtaposes her coming out with Musa liberating his people from the pharoah; asks if Allah, who is neither male nor female, might instead be nonbinary; and, drawing on the faith and hope Nuh needed to construct his ark, begins to build a life of her own--ultimately finding that the answer to her lifelong quest for community and belonging lies in owning her identity as a queer, devout Muslim immigrant. This searingly intimate memoir in essays, spanning Lamya's childhood to her arrival in the United States for college through early-adult life in New York City, tells a universal story of courage, trust, and love, celebrating what it means to be a seeker and an architect of one's own life.

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