I was really getting annoyed by the saying “Sümeyyeler” that is used for women in hijab.
Hi, my story is like many of yours. Throughout my childhood, sometimes my father and sometimes my uncle put a veil on my head, and
My father said, “If we take you to the doctor, we’ll learn that you’re not a virgin.”
To live, according to what or who? Our thoughts are the biggest thing that makes us who we are. If we had no thoughts, there
On the way of me looking for truth and reality, my headscarf was swinging from one side to the other.
Hello there. I’ve read almost all of the letters posted on this page and now I regret a little bit for being in a dilemma
My mother told me how much she regretted to not making me a veiled girl when I was 7 years old.
Hello everyone. I don’t know where to start, there are so many things that have accumulated inside me. I would always love to explain these
Do I want to take off the hijab to be accepted by a certain circle?
Hi. I just discovered this platform and I really liked it. First, I’d like to talk about why I wore the hijab and my current
I just want to be free.
I’m 18 years old. I met with the headscarf when I was in 5th grade, and at that time, I was 11 years old. According
I can’t tell my family, “This is me; this is my ideas, accept me.”
Hello. I think my story has a dramatic start and a happy ending. At least, I hope it is. I have a family that can
I find a job and start earning money, and that day will be the happiest day of mine.
I did not read most of the letters on your website, I know you from the articles of Büşra Cebeci. I did not read the
They stipulated that I had to wear ferace so that I could attend school
I grew up in a very conservative family as a girl with 5 brothers. When I finished secondary school, they brought a headscarf requirement to
I always imagine myself without my hijab in my dreams and daydreams.
Hello, unlike many others who wrote here, I will not make certain statements because, even I don’t know what I want to do. I was
If they had offered to give all the world to me, I would choose freedom again.
The pressure that started verbally in primary school increased even more when my father hit me in 6th grade and forced me to wear the
When I gain my economic independence, I will also gain my spiritual independence.
Even though I cried and said I did not want it when I entered adolescence, my family forced me to cover my hair saying: ‘’This
We only lived life according to my father’s rules.
A father who does not even think of sending his children to primary school, almost every person around him, is a religious educator. Fortunately, I
I got my period 1-2 months after I had become a hijabi and I have no hope of taking off my hijab anymore.
Hello, how are you? I came here to talk about myself, because people like us don’t have much chance, you know. Right now, I am
Life is long, and I have many things to do.
Hello. I am 21 years old woman going to the university and trying to stand on my own feet. I am the oldest child of
Children should never be given religious education.
I am 36 years old, I went to high school in Anatolian Imam Hatip High School1. I learned both critical thinking and good English there.
For the sake of something I do not believe, I have to restrict myself and sacrifice my freedom.
I grew up in a conservative, well-known family. A kindergarten that raises religious, Qur’an courses that go every summer from primary school 1, weekly evening
I used to take off my headscarf next to the little girls wearing headscarves and holding their mother’s hands.
I already sent a letter that tells my story. Comments were saying that I’m lying about what I said. Interesting, isn’t it? I’m writing about
If you wear a headscarf, everyone will judge you, whether they are religious or not.
As someone tired of expressing her thoughts only to herself, I want to talk openly here. Although I am wearing a headscarf, I don’t define
It was strangling me, and no one saw it except me.
The headscarf is a cultural symbol imposed by men rather than religion on our land. I had been thinking of taking it off for 3
I have not worn a headscarf for six years, but at least once a month, I see in my dream that I wear a headscarf and try to take it off.
I voluntarily covered my hair at high school. I wanted to take my headscarf off two weeks after that, but I was afraid of public
I decided that I didn’t want to veil, My mom said she would disown me.
I’m the daughter of a conservative family. I was brought up with religious teachings; of course, it felt like it was the only truth at
I don’t think men would accept going in the sea covered from head to toe.
Hello, It still feels weird to be writing on this platform; it feels like a dream, although it isn’t. Before I started high school, I
“If you took off your hijab, I won’t call you my daughter.”
I had promised myself; as soon as I took off my headscarf, my first job would be to write to this page, but it wasn’t
My mom beat me all night since all she cared about was what her friends would say.
Hello everyone, I would like to tell you something with adding bits from my own story. First of all, I’ve been reading from the website
I haven’t seen myself in hijab even in my dreams, whereas I was in hijab for nine years.
Hello, I came across your page in the explore page and I wanted to say some things about my experience. I started wearing hijab in
This hijab pushes me away from myself but it doesn’t draw me any closer to my religion either.
Hello everyone. I’m turning 18 today but no one including my family members wished me a happy birthday even though it’s 8 PM. It’s fine,
I will leave my family and take off the hijab when I get into university.
Hello, I have been following this page for a long time and I am incredibly happy for them who achieve what they want when I
Here is the girl to marry!
Hello my sisters, I’ll get straight to the point. All of the women in my family and relatives were veiled in their adulthood, it would