#veiled muslim

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Wore my Niqab and Jilbab to Masjid again Today, I felt great

[thatmuslimgirl27]

[al-litham]

5 years of Tumblr! here's to many more years of wearing and encouraging niqab (face veiling and headscarves) for everyone of all genders.

If you haven't worn niqab or veiled yet, take the initiative and put it on today! No excuses, anyone can tie a full veil with a few scarves.

Watch my quick and easy tutorial on how to tie niqab using square scarves (great for both men and women).

Remember - veiling is universal and perfect for everyone! It's the goal to get everyone on earth to wear niqab permanently to make us all equal and smash gender inequality.

[goodmorningnona]

yo can we actually talk about harrow's blood face paint and veil at the beginning of htn for a sec. i know a lot of people poke fun at it but for me as someone who grew up in a veiling religion with the constant threat of that veil being taken away it's like... not being able to wear that veil IN FRONT OF PEOPLE? that's like being naked before god. it is terrifying and traumatic to not be able to wear a veil or other religious garments. at the end of the day it's not even about god specifically, like i could meet god and even if he said to take off the veil i wouldn't, because it's for me. it's for her before it's for god. i felt for harrow so hard at that part of the book and i get that she's just a scrungle but i would love if we could portray occasionally the nauseating forced vulnerability and sense of injustice you would feel at your religion being stripped from you.

[veiled-goddess-bastet]

I love leo print 🥰🥰

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[leilamuslim]

Being a sissy muslimah is bliss for every lost white boy.

[apple-piety]

So, not even a week after resuming my veiling practice, I experienced discrimination. I don’t wish to recount the experience to save my emotional energy, but I do want to go into why I’m glad I had this experience, and how it encourages me to continue.

Firstly, I want to acknowledge the fact that my preferred approach to veiling does in fact make me resemble Muslim women. And because of this, I want to give a heartfelt thank you to Muslim women worldwide for setting the standard for others who find empowerment and comfort in modesty. As a white person, I have been aware of and sympathetic to the plight of Muslim women worldwide, but it’s different when it happens to you. It cements it. My heart aches for your strife and is full by your courage. This is one reason I’m glad for this experience. It strengthens my resolve and compassion. Thank you.

Another reason I’m glad for the experience, is because it reiterates why I want to veil in the first place. I live in Midwestern America. Our bodily autonomy is quickly being stolen from us. Our bodies are hyper-sexualized and spoken about as if all I’m good for is having babies that the government can raise as cattle for the capitalist machine. It’s a physical symbol of rejecting that. I get to decide how I look to others. I get to decide who gets access to my body, not just in a sexual manner but as a whole. For me, it’s a radical act of feminism. It feels as though the fibers in my headscarves and coverings are woven together in a greater tapestry of women worldwide. I can feel it with Muslim women, whom I do not share a religion with, but share something more important: kinship, and sisterhood. My threads are woven with the Muslim women in France who are fighting legislation for their right to be modest (that is batshit insane) and also with those victimized by western imperialism (which gave birth to the Taliban). The tapestry is worldwide, including Jewish women and their tichels, other pagans with their bandanas and beanies, even traditional Christian women who wear lace coverings. But modesty and autonomy reach beyond the gender divide so I have home in those who are also men, nonbinary, gender-fluid, two-spirit, and many others. It is community. It filters out many people who show their true intentions and beliefs, and makes it so much easier to cut through the lies and masks of people whose support is conditional.

I have always been modest and prudish and now I can celebrate it, instead of being “othered” by it. I feel as though it is a symbol of my devotion, but also a form of radical self-care that I celebrate myself.

It is Hera’s Crown.

It is Athena’s War Helmet.

It is Hermes’ Winged Helmet.

It is Eurybia’s Cloak of the Ocean.

It is Hades’ Helmet of Shadow.

It is Hestia’s Veil.

It is Zeus’ Crown.

It makes me feel godly and holy. It protects me. It invigorates me. It gives me confidence.

Khaire.

[coentinim]

The thing a lot of feminists discuss a lot is what is actually empowerment. Because some will say it's makeup, high heels and generally conforming to the beauty standard, or maybe wearing a hijab or other religious head or body covering. And I just think the word they're looking for is just confidence. It's not empowering to shave your legs or cover up your entire body, but it does reduce shame. I'm also ashamed of walking out unshaved, with no concealer and with dirty hair, so when I do shaving or make up, the lack of shame creates a fleeting but pleasant feeling of confidence. Rejecting beauty norms entirely would be more of an actual empowerment, but I'd have to bear the shame first. And I don't know if I can do that.

[thatmuslimgirl27]

This is my goal

[usssnarfblat]

Princess Zeila, voiced in English by a young Julie Andrews., from "The Singing Princess" (1949)

[divinum-pacis]

2015: Gisele Marie, a Muslim heavy metal musician, plays guitar during a concert in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Marie, 42, is the granddaughter of German Catholics, and converted to Islam several months after her father died in 2009. “People do not expect to see a Muslim woman who uses a Burqa, practices the religion properly and is a professional guitarist who plays in a heavy metal band, so many are shocked by it,” said Marie. “But other people are curious and find it interesting, and others think that it’s cool.”

Photograph: Nacho Doce/Reuters

[nickysfacts]

The Hijab did not originate from Islam nor are they oppressive when women have the freedom to choose when they wear one.

🧕🏼☪️🧕🏾

[veiled-goddess-bastet]

Wearing niqab more than one year.

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