You won't walk alone

Genel

I don’t think men would accept going in the sea covered from head to toe.

October 18, 2021
Genel

“If you took off your hijab, I won’t call you my daughter.”

October 18, 2021
Genel

My mom beat me all night since all she cared about was what her friends would say.

October 18, 2021
Genel

I haven’t seen myself in hijab even in my dreams, whereas I was in hijab for nine years.

October 18, 2021
Genel

This hijab pushes me away from myself but it doesn’t draw me any closer to my religion either.

October 18, 2021
Genel

I will leave my family and take off the hijab when I get into university.

October 17, 2021
Genel

Here is the girl to marry!

October 16, 2021
Genel

My mom said, “You know the best. It’s your life eventually.”

October 15, 2021
Genel

I hadn’t finished middle school yet, and I was dreaming of unveiling in university.

October 15, 2021
Genel

I do not have the power to hear the opposite of the words and insults I heard while defending the headscarf.

October 14, 2021
Genel

I would say, “If my mother will find out that I have menstruated, I would rather die.”

October 13, 2021
Genel

I want to unveil the day I start university.

October 12, 2021
Genel

I don’t want to be buried under the etiquette “theologist hodja lady”.

October 11, 2021
Genel

People cannot even stand on others paying the prices of their own “sins.”

October 10, 2021
Genel

I’m still a Muslim girl and I’ll confront people with my literacy.

October 10, 2021
Genel

I thought no one on this road to freedom would support me.

October 9, 2021
Genel

“How are you going to be a theologian by doing this?”

October 8, 2021
Genel

Islam is not responsible for this pressure on women.

October 8, 2021
Genel

What’s harder than carrying the burden of a religion you don’t believe in?

October 8, 2021
Genel

I couldn’t say, “Mum, this headscarf is choking me.”

October 8, 2021