sister-hood is an award-winning digital magazine spotlighting the diverse voices of women of Muslim heritage.
I first discovered the ‘hijabistas’ by watching Youtubers such as Dina Tokio, Ascia AKF, Habiba da Silva and Noor Tagouri. Through these Youtubers, I found Modest Street Fashion, a book documenting the trend for modest fashion which has spread from…
I wrote this poem following the recent burkini ban in France. In this poem, I tried to identify with how the woman on the beach in Nice felt when she was ordered by police officers to remove her burkini because…
When I tell people that I am a vegan, the usual response (other than the repetitive ‘But how can you live without bacon!?’) is to ask if it is for religious reasons. My parents are from India, home to a…
An interview with Noor Jdid Noor Jdid is a Doctoral Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and the Centre for Women’s and Gender Research (SKOK), and a board member of the minority politics think-tank Minotenk. Through research, blogging…
For the past week or so, I have been immersed in Bertrand Russell‘s writings. I do that often. I find what he writes comforting as violence spins out of control in so many parts of the world: some very close…
We have reached an era in which what individual women wear to beaches has become a crucial concern within the secular, former colonial, French government. During the summer of 2016, 30 mayors in France have banned the burkini, a form…
SAMANIA (Samira Mahboub and Ania Catherine) decided to call-out the less visible and seemingly innocent discourses around romantic love between women based on their experience hearing comments such as ‘I don’t get it, I’m just worried about you, It’s just…
My name is Sana. I am 31 years old, mother to a little baby girl, and wife to a major techie. I’m also a writer, journalist and artist. As much as I dislike the usage of labels, you can add…
I was born in London to parents of different cultural, linguistic and religious backgrounds, into a family where at least four generations have been migrants and minorities. I have myself lived in six different countries growing up. Throughout my own…
As a survivor of honour-based abuse, I was delighted when The Iranian Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation (IKWRO) opened the first specialist women’s refuge in 2015 for Middle Eastern, North African and Afghan (MENA) women. IKWRO was founded in 2002 to…
This year, I followed the Rio Olympics 2016 with a great enthusiasm, mainly because of the many Muslim female participants representing Muslim and Western countries in various sports. These women have exhibited extraordinary talent, winning medals in everything from taekwondo,…
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