Muslim Women Are Everything, the new book by DoctorYasmin, takes joy in flipping stereotypes on their head
What it’s really like to be the only Muslim in a small English village
Second, Yasmin was careful to include the stories of Muslim women whose stories are a little ambiguous: she resists the urge to flatten them out into one-dimensional positive female role models. “Muslim women can be warmongers too!” says Yasmin. “I’m not saying we’re perfect. I’m saying that we get to be everything – and sometimes those are controversial things.
, yet “the exclusion and erasure of black Muslims has been happening for a long time,” Yasmin says. With that in mind, black Muslim women feature prominently in the book, from R&B singer SZA to the Hausa queen Amina and the Senegalese feminist author Mariama Bâ.Yasmin believes it is vital that people don’t “artificially disconnect” themovement from the movement against Islamophobia: “There are so many overlapping injustices.” The mood in the US at the moment is tense, she adds.
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