{"id":11324,"date":"2017-04-18T11:04:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T05:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak?p=11324"},"modified":"2019-03-25T15:38:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T10:08:20","slug":"video-page-muslim-women-colour-swaggin-hijabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/video-page-muslim-women-colour-swaggin-hijabs\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Page: These Muslim Women of Colour are Swaggin\u2019 Their Hijabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it doesn\u2019t seem to take more than the mere glimpse of a woman with her head covered to conjure thoughts of subjugation and silent acquiescence. The skewed portrayal that dominates narratives about Muslim women in mainstream international media continues to sustain an atmosphere of misinformation, where donning a hijab leads society to promptly place you in a box labelled \u2018Oppressed\u2019. Taking matters into their own hands are these two certainly not silent U.S.-based Muslim women who\u2019re doing what they can \u2013 with hijab firmly in place \u2013 to undo the dangerous stereotyping that mires the image of Muslim women of colour.<\/p>\n<p>Amirah Sackett, a breakdancer and the creator of the dance group \u2018We\u2019re Muslim, Don\u2019t Panic\u2019, combines hip-hop performances and lectures to dispel myths surrounding Muslims and Muslim Americans:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KmbLNz1vpQk?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And in her viral rap anthem <em>Hijabi<\/em>, Mona Haydar, a poet and activist, tears down stereotypes about Muslim women who choose to wear the hijab:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XOX9O_kVPeo?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><i><em>We\u00a0curate videos and images based on our monthly theme, and credit and link back to\u00a0their original source.\u00a0<\/em><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The skewed portrayal that dominates narratives about Muslim women in mainstream international media continues to sustain an atmosphere of misinformation, where donning a hijab leads society to promptly place you in a box labelled \u2018Oppressed\u2019. Taking matters into their own hands are these two certainly not silent U.S.-based Muslim women who\u2019re doing what they can \u2013 with hijab firmly in place \u2013 to undo the dangerous stereotyping that mires the image of Muslim women of colour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":11325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1162,1,13,7],"tags":[282,1176,1198,1177,434,866],"class_list":{"0":"post-11324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boundaries-sexuality","8":"category-categories","9":"category-videopage","10":"category-visualcorner","11":"tag-hijab","12":"tag-hijabi","13":"tag-muslim","14":"tag-oppressed","15":"tag-woman","16":"tag-women-of-colour"},"menu_order":965,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11324"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16674,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11324\/revisions\/16674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}