Dominant and Counter Narratives by https://padlet.com/raghavali/rqg67eg4zv12i2ee Period 1 en-us 2021-05-05 16:34:57 UTC 2021-05-05 20:01:55 UTC hello@padlet.com Dominant Narrative raghavali https://padlet.com/raghavali/rqg67eg4zv12i2ee/wish/1494684168 2021-05-05 16:35:51 UTC https://padlet.com/raghavali/rqg67eg4zv12i2ee/wish/1494684168 Counter Narrative raghavali https://padlet.com/raghavali/rqg67eg4zv12i2ee/wish/1494684509 2021-05-05 16:35:55 UTC https://padlet.com/raghavali/rqg67eg4zv12i2ee/wish/1494684509 I am a Palestinian-American Muslim woman who wears a hijab. So I’ve been made painfully aware that some people ruffle up when I use the word radical. raghavali https://padlet.com/raghavali/rqg67eg4zv12i2ee/wish/1494688521 2021-05-05 16:36:43 UTC https://padlet.com/raghavali/rqg67eg4zv12i2ee/wish/1494688521 But when I describe the loving place I grew up in, it is a word that truly applies. Brooklyn is a place I love like a human being. It is the place where I learned the meaning of radical love. raghavali https://padlet.com/raghavali/rqg67eg4zv12i2ee/wish/1494689849 2021-05-05 16:36:59 UTC https://padlet.com/raghavali/rqg67eg4zv12i2ee/wish/1494689849 Like all Muslim babies, the first sounds I heard upon entering the world were words of love. I was welcomed into life, into my neighborhood, into my family with great enthusiasm. raghavali https://padlet.com/raghavali/rqg67eg4zv12i2ee/wish/1494692047 2021-05-05 16:37:25 UTC https://padlet.com/raghavali/rqg67eg4zv12i2ee/wish/1494692047 In Arab culture, everyone wants a son first and foremost, because boys can carry on the family name. It is customary to hope aloud that your first child will be a boy. raghavali https://padlet.com/raghavali/rqg67eg4zv12i2ee/wish/1494693363 2021-05-05 16:37:42 UTC https://padlet.com/raghavali/rqg67eg4zv12i2ee/wish/1494693363 Every time my mother would have another daughter, people would say, “Poor lady, inshallah [God willing] next time it will be a boy.” Not my dad. He would be so elated every time my mother had a daughter that when he would come home from the hospital acting so giddy, our neighbors and family would rise up from their seats thinking surely Dad’s glee meant that this time it was a boy. Then my dad would tell them my mother had a given birth to another girl, and it always left them puzzled. raghavali https://padlet.com/raghavali/rqg67eg4zv12i2ee/wish/1494697768 2021-05-05 16:38:38 UTC https://padlet.com/raghavali/rqg67eg4zv12i2ee/wish/1494697768 It is true that in Muslim families, women are often the backbone, the foundation, and not so much at the forefront. raghavali https://padlet.com/raghavali/rqg67eg4zv12i2ee/wish/1494700821 2021-05-05 16:39:15 UTC https://padlet.com/raghavali/rqg67eg4zv12i2ee/wish/1494700821 But my father never kept his daughters at home. He always integrated us into social activities and encouraged us to participate in anything that could help us learn or have fun. raghavali https://padlet.com/raghavali/rqg67eg4zv12i2ee/wish/1494702795 2021-05-05 16:39:39 UTC https://padlet.com/raghavali/rqg67eg4zv12i2ee/wish/1494702795 Many of the Muslim parents didn’t want their daughters dancing in public. raghavali https://padlet.com/raghavali/rqg67eg4zv12i2ee/wish/1494706268 2021-05-05 16:40:21 UTC https://padlet.com/raghavali/rqg67eg4zv12i2ee/wish/1494706268 People sometimes ask me how a Muslim woman like me can be a feminist, because they are under the impression that those two things are incompatible. raghavali https://padlet.com/raghavali/rqg67eg4zv12i2ee/wish/1494760181 2021-05-05 16:51:18 UTC https://padlet.com/raghavali/rqg67eg4zv12i2ee/wish/1494760181 People imagine that Muslim communities turn their backs on women or subjugate them to lesser roles, but this was not my experience raghavali https://padlet.com/raghavali/rqg67eg4zv12i2ee/wish/1494763506 2021-05-05 16:52:00 UTC https://padlet.com/raghavali/rqg67eg4zv12i2ee/wish/1494763506 As a child, I never felt less than my brothers or male cousins. I was Linda, the daughter of Abu Linda. My name meant something to the most important man in my life. It never even occurred to me that women couldn’t speak in public or that women were any less important in our community -- or any part of the world., for that matter, I was always surrounded by my sisters, female cousins, and other mothers in my neighborhood, and we weren’t a passive bunch. We all looked out for one another. raghavali https://padlet.com/raghavali/rqg67eg4zv12i2ee/wish/1494766126 2021-05-05 16:52:31 UTC https://padlet.com/raghavali/rqg67eg4zv12i2ee/wish/1494766126 There are millions of Muslim women who are powerful and independent. Women who are going to lead us one day. raghavali https://padlet.com/raghavali/rqg67eg4zv12i2ee/wish/1494771512 2021-05-05 16:53:40 UTC https://padlet.com/raghavali/rqg67eg4zv12i2ee/wish/1494771512