FYI Shia LaBeouf’s “HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US” exhibit was shut down today because so many neo-nazi, white supremacist fucks went to his exhibit to harass him, a Jewish person, and use his art project to promote their hate. It created a public safety hazard for the museum and they shut down what was supposed to be a 4 year project.
It is our duty as feminists to protect and respect women in Hijabs
Now. More. Than. Ever.
Question: if I see someone pull off a Hijab, what should I do? I know there are reasons they are worn so I want to if i should stand in between them and who did this, should i protect them from view somehow, or something else? This has been happening a lot so I feel it’s something everyone needs to know.
Good question! I cannot correctly and effectively answer, as I am a white, non-Muslim person; however, I will reblog in case any of my followers can answer.
I asked my Hijabi friend, so here’s one Hijabi’s answer:
“my opinion is, definitely try cover them or give them something to cover themselves with. And perhaps shoo off the person, without putting oneself in danger! God forbid, if that happened to me, I would like someone to come and comfort me and give me something to cover my hair with and then help me report it to the cops
“
(Followers, if any of you are hijabi and would like to expand on this answer or offer alternatives, please do.)
If u see it happen to 1 of us, pls cover our head + hair with a coat or shawl or any piece of cloth, while hugging us in comfort. Please don’t get hurt by lashing out @ the perpetrators in any way, coz if they dare to do that, they’re probably too far gone in their own hatred to listen to any reason. Much love + Thank You to anyone who supports us.
yes !! everything said here is important af. if you see someone pull off a girl’s hijab immediately cover her hair and provide comfort. don’t talk to the perpetrator but try to get the woman out of there if you can. maybe if you have a scarf on you at the time give it to her so she can wear it until she’s alone and can replace her hijab. please please protect muslim girls because we already had it hard before donald trump became president and now its gonna be worse with people going around thinking their violence and cruelty is justified
AAAJ (Asian Americans Advancing Justice) has created a website here where you can report anti-Asian hate crimes.
This is real life! This is real shit happening to real people! I don’t want to hear any more discourse that acts like Asians or Chinese people in particular are gonna be safe or don’t need to worry about the new regime
Ugh. Sorry to hear that NO minority is safe (but not surprised).
Have the character have transferred to a different ship and be doing just fine. He sends Sulu messages about how he’s doing. Then respect why Chekov was originally there and make the new person in his seat an Iranian, Iraqi, Syrian, or Saudi Arabian woman. Chekov was there to predict a future where the Russians, America’s greatest enemies at the time of the shows creation, were our friends and allies. Pay respect to why he was created by placing a Muslim woman from a country that America has warred with in the seat. Give her a gold dress, black long sleeve undershirt, black leggings, and a federation uniform approved hijab. The movies would be creating representation and paying respects to what Chekov was there for. Put a muslim woman in the navigators chair and let her fly us through the stars.
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: When you treat retail employees like shit, you become an instant joke. You are the story they tell over coffee to make their friends and family laugh at the idiot. You are the person they mimic in a squeaky voice.
Next time you want to yell at a retail employee, imagine them repeating what you are about to say in a squeaky voice. Because that will be your legacy.
Reminds me of a thing that happened me once.
So, I do three day LARP events in the U.K. Before we mostly transitioned to grudging and reluctant car owners, there used to be a whole bunch of us travelled over together from Ireland on Irish Ferries rail and sail ticket, Dublin to Derby return for about €90, which given train prices in Britain is a steal.
At the end of the event, we’d all be exhausted, unshowered, muddy, with traces of face paint or latex, looking ever so slightly post apocalyptic in our combat boots and occasional bits of armour or cloaks that didn’t fit in our backpacks.
So there I was on a train, unwashed, sunburned, greasy hair, wearing the grubby clothes I’d taken down my tent in. I wasn’t in the mood for other humans so I sat away from the rest of the LARPers and read my book.
Some fella gets on, asks if he can sit beside me. I vaguely register his presence and shrug, because it’s a free seat and a free country. (I didn’t realise there were loads of double seats free at the time. Train creep red flag there.)
So I’m reading my book and he starts talking, like
“Is that a good book?”
and I’m like “Yes.”
And I go back to reading it. After he makes a couple more attempts at a chat I say “Look, I’m sorry but I don’t really want to talk; I’d just like to read my book thanks.”
Well, the fucker is personally offended by the fact that I’m not riveted by his winning personality and he starts whinging, and I ignore him or give one syllable answers, and then he starts trying to annoy me. Like, singing Elvis songs at me. So I keep ignoring and he keeps being a petty little fuckmuppet, and eventually I snap at him to stop trying to talk to me.
And he says “Why, what are you going to do about it?”
Now, I will always regret that having been fed a straight line like that, I froze, a million comebacks coming to mind and then discarded. Do I say “It’s not me you need to worry about mate,” and ask all the LARPers to stand up? Does that imply I need other people to defend me?
So while I’m trying to work out what to say that will hurt his feelings the most, he huffs and says “oh, you’ll probably stab me or something, I’ll just go!”
And then he fucks off down the other end of the carriage, and I try to keep reading but my adrenaline is up now and I can’t, so I go down to the others and stand in the aisle, telling them about this pathetic fuckwit with no manners who thought he was entitled to my time and attention.
And as I start taking, I can see a reflection in the window near me. The fucker moved down this end of the carriage, and can hear every word I’m saying. I got to watch him cringe and try to burrow down inside his coat as I mocked him mercilessly to the eight to twelve people who all laughed at him with me.
And that was probably one of the most deeply emotionally satisfying moments of my life.
Zohra Sehgal, a South Asian actress par excellence, actually spoke multiple languages including Urdu, Hindi, English and German. She is one of the earliest international actresses who came from an aristocratic Muslim family in India. When her father insisted that she get married, she outright said, ‘I don’t want to get married,’ and announced that she might become a pilot. In 1917 she went to a boarding school in Lahore, after which, in 1930, she donned a burqa and set off for Europe by road — crossing Iran, Syria, Palestine and Egypt. She trained as a ballet dancer in Germany. Zohra was quite blunt when it came to expressing her opinions. She was an agnostic and defied all the stereotypes about a “Muslim girl from a traditional family”. She was unbelievably bold and confident and was known for her mischievous humor. She earned immense respect in British TV at a time when people were not accepting of ‘diversity’ and even the Asian roles were played by white people.
When she had first arrived in Britain, “it was such that if we were sitting in the bus, the British did not sit next to us. Unconsciously in the minds of white people, there was a hesitation”. She defied cultural norms once more when she married her Hindu student eight years younger than her. She never felt welcomed in Lahore, so she left half her family in Pakistan
after 1947 Partition
and settled in Delhi where she taught a theater group. She raised her children on her own when her husband committed suicide at a young age. She was literally unstoppable and appeared consistently in British TV series like The Jewel in Crown, Mind Your Language and Doctor Who. She has acted in myriad Bollywood films and performed across Japan, Egypt, Europe and the US. She was a classical dancer, choreographer, cinema, theater and television actress whose career spanned over 8 decades. She was awarded Padma Shri and Padma Vibhushan, some of the highest civilian honors in India. She was a fighter all her life, she even defeated cancer.
On her 100th birthday she said, “I want an electric cremation. I don’t want any poems and fuss after that. And for heaven’s sake don’t bring back the ashes. Flush them down the toilet if the crematorium refuses to keep them. If they tell you that I am dead, I want you to give a big laugh".
Zohra aapa lived the life of a grand diva and passed away in 2014 at the age of 102.
“Oh, my burqa was of lovely silk and I was so glad I made petticoats out of it!”
Zohra with her husband Kameshwar Sehgal in 1945.
“What actually makes brings out your beauty is the radiance of being content and you can only be content when you are employed in something you love.”
“You see me now when I am old and ugly, in fact you should have seen me earlier — when I was young and ugly!”
Zohra at her 100th birthday was quietly humming “Abhi To Main Jawan Hoon” (I am still young) by poet Hafeez Jullundhri, as she attacked the huge cake.
“Life’s been tough but I’ve been tougher. I beat life at its own game”
What an amazing face! And an even more amazing woman!
Gaga opening with “this land is your land, this land is my land” and then singing “born this way” was a huge fuck you to trump and pence and no one will ever convince me otherwise.
Zohra Sehgal, a South Asian actress par excellence, actually spoke multiple languages including Urdu, Hindi, English and German. She is one of the earliest international actresses who came from an aristocratic Muslim family in India. When her father insisted that she get married, she outright said, ‘I don’t want to get married,’ and announced that she might become a pilot. In 1917 she went to a boarding school in Lahore, after which, in 1930, she donned a burqa and set off for Europe by road — crossing Iran, Syria, Palestine and Egypt. She trained as a ballet dancer in Germany. Zohra was quite blunt when it came to expressing her opinions. She was an agnostic and defied all the stereotypes about a “Muslim girl from a traditional family”. She was unbelievably bold and confident and was known for her mischievous humor. She earned immense respect in British TV at a time when people were not accepting of ‘diversity’ and even the Asian roles were played by white people.
When she had first arrived in Britain, “it was such that if we were sitting in the bus, the British did not sit next to us. Unconsciously in the minds of white people, there was a hesitation”. She defied cultural norms once more when she married her Hindu student eight years younger than her. She never felt welcomed in Lahore, so she left half her family in Pakistan
after 1947 Partition
and settled in Delhi where she taught a theater group. She raised her children on her own when her husband committed suicide at a young age. She was literally unstoppable and appeared consistently in British TV series like The Jewel in Crown, Mind Your Language and Doctor Who. She has acted in myriad Bollywood films and performed across Japan, Egypt, Europe and the US. She was a classical dancer, choreographer, cinema, theater and television actress whose career spanned over 8 decades. She was awarded Padma Shri and Padma Vibhushan, some of the highest civilian honors in India. She was a fighter all her life, she even defeated cancer.
On her 100th birthday she said, “I want an electric cremation. I don’t want any poems and fuss after that. And for heaven’s sake don’t bring back the ashes. Flush them down the toilet if the crematorium refuses to keep them. If they tell you that I am dead, I want you to give a big laugh".
Zohra aapa lived the life of a grand diva and passed away in 2014 at the age of 102.
“Oh, my burqa was of lovely silk and I was so glad I made petticoats out of it!”
Zohra with her husband Kameshwar Sehgal in 1945.
“What actually makes brings out your beauty is the radiance of being content and you can only be content when you are employed in something you love.”
“You see me now when I am old and ugly, in fact you should have seen me earlier — when I was young and ugly!”
Zohra at her 100th birthday was quietly humming “Abhi To Main Jawan Hoon” (I am still young) by poet Hafeez Jullundhri, as she attacked the huge cake.
“Life’s been tough but I’ve been tougher. I beat life at its own game”
What an amazing face! And an even more amazing woman!
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