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Please Keep Your American Flags Off My Hijab
Preface: To be honest with you, I was having trouble putting this piece into words just because I haven't been able to sit with my thoughts since the inauguration. Everything seems to have hit me at...
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If You Use Our Faces Maybe Stop Killing Our People?
I'm going to be blunt: being Muslim has become the next hot identity -- to claim, to wave around above your head, and to profit from. The mainstream seems to desperately cling to, and want to claim,...
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No Representation in Sweatshops: Ethical & Muslim-Owned Alternatives to...
About 24 hours after I published my latest piece, "If You Use Our Faces Maybe Stop Killing Our People?" on the problematic new trend of hijab-fast-fashion, Nike released their latest product of...
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Muslim Ban 2.0: Do Not Let This Become the New Normal
After delaying its issuance in order to bask in the continued normalization and celebration of his regime by mainstream media, Trump last Monday signed his regime's latest attempt at introducing a...
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Persian New Year Giveaway: Tehran Streetstyle Book + Tote!
HAPPY NEW YEARS & START OF SPRING!Today, around the world Iranians, Albanians, Kurds, Afghanis, and others are celebrating Nowruz, or "New Day," in Farsi, marking the start of spring, new life, and...
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LEARNING FROM THE EAST: ON SELF-CARE / Editorial
Oh capitalism, always devaluing women's work and emotional labor and warping people's sense of self-worth based on a physical measurable output of profit. If you don't manage to check everything (or...
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We're Hiring a (paid!) Fall/Summer Intern!
Want to be working on an activist fashion blog, producing an ethical clothing line, publishing original research and journalism on various media outlets, building a network and collaborating with...
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Anti-Muslim Racism & Whitewashing Hollywood - TNT's American Race (Video)
Last Friday I had the honor of flying out to Los Angeles--aka my new favorite city in the USA--to speak on a panel covering everything from anti-Muslim racism to whitewashing Hollywood to the American...
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FROM FASHION TO WAR: BREAKING DOWN ORIENTALISM
Orientalism: the normalized (& highly problematic) framework through which the West observes, writes about, and examines the East -- specifically, the Middle East/North Africa/South Asia and...
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The Haitian-Designed Ethical Menswear Label You Need to Meet
This casual-cool varsity brand sits at the perfect intersection of ethical production, an aesthetic rooted in the local but flirting with the international, dedication to craftsmanship, and a vibe that...
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How H&M is Erasing War Crimes in Their Latest Marketing Campaign
Andy Torres (and her blog Style Scrapbook) was the second blog(ger) I ever found, and first I read religiously. I remember spending hours on end going through years of her blog's archives, soaking up...
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Field Testing: The New MATTER Ethical Dress
Friends at MATTER Prints have asked me to spend a day in a piece from their new ethical dress collection, and of course their Simple Shirt Dress in Falcon Footprint was an instant choice -- and the...
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Making Racists Uncomfortable, One Outfit at a Time
Black head-to-toe minus the loud, blockish letters that yell "DEMILITARIZE" in white across my chest, right below the folds of my black Hijab -- the outfit of choice for this Iranian Muslim living in...
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2018 Reader Survey + Major Project Announcements
It's that time of year again where the trees are lit, the ice skates are laced up, I apologize for not posting as much, promise I'll do better the next year, and slip a survey under your noses.Ah,...
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WE'RE HIRING! JOIN THE JOOJOO AZAD TEAM
ANNOUNCING TWO NEW *PAID* INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES!Want to be working on an activist fashion blog, producing an ethical clothing line, working to organize a Chicago-based sewing co-operative of refugee...
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"You Do Not Sound American": A Live Interview on WGN-TV
I was on WGN for a live interview last week, and was asked to speak about my work and my book, but when I gave answers the hosts didn't like, their questions (and comments) started to get hostile,...
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BROWNBOOK MAGAZINE / FASHION EDITORIAL FEATURE
For those of you who are #bae and follow on the snap, you might remember the story from ages ago--running around on one of the hottest days in Chicago equipped with Kevin the photographer (I'm proud to...
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On International Working Women's Day, Please Understand Complexity
What do Hilary Clinton, Google, L'Oreal, Wonder Woman, and Nike all have in common? They are all fairly successful at convincing mass audiences that they are inclusive and support women despite...
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New (Persian) Year, New Updates!
Happy Persian New Years and start of spring, coming at you straight from Tehrangeles, California, the location of the largest Iranian diasporic community in the world!Last week I was on Instagram Live...
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A Radical Reading Club, #BecauseWeveRead
“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you...
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