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 they imposed this idea on me by saying “How beautiful you are in hijab”. My mother always pressured me by
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 wouldn’t be any difference between us and animals. Also, if we do things that other people force us to do,
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 about whether to write or not. I’m 17 years old now, third year of high school. I’ve been wearing a
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 to someone or write them somewhere, but unfortunately, I didn’t have any sister or a friend that I can feel
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 state of belief. I went to Imam Hatip (religious school) in middle school with my own will. My friends were
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 to Islam, individuals who are not in puberty are not responsible for the religious requirements. As an 11-year-old child, I
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 be considered conservative in its own right. I veiled at a very young age. This was the whole circle of
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 articles because they push me to despair. Other women have faced such difficult situations. Some got what they wanted, but
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 go to high school, and I had to accept it. When high school was over, they told me that I
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 going to an imam hatip high school which is a religious school, and I started to get lower grades through
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 hijab. From the first day, I wear the hijab, my self-confidence was destroyed, I did not want to go anywhere,
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 is Allah’s order, you will burn in hell if you don’t obey.’’ Since then, I have turned into an unhappy
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 was able to go to primary school. At that time, my mother was utterly on my father’s side. I was
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 in 9th grade. In 5th grade I started to wear the hijab with my own will (!) without knowing what
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 a family from the Southeast and their only daughter. I want to start with my father, who made my childhood
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. On the other hand, I learned that my voice was forbidden to men. I was a sinner because I was
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 conversations in secondary school… I grew up with a classical conservative child raising method. I always knew I was going
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 my life here. Those who force their daughters to wear a headscarf try and treat me like the things I
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 myself as a veiled woman; my style and makeup don’t comply with the Islamic understanding of a veiled woman. My
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 years. Yet, because of social pressure, I kept distracting myself, “Maybe you think wrongly, try to love.” I did not
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 pressure. I was worried about what my friends would say. I said to myself, “I will uncover my hair again
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 the time because you don’t see anything different. I was veiled in high school due to my own will, my
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 began to wear a hijab entirely voluntarily. I didn’t think there was something wrong about it as everyone around me
“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 in my destiny. I will be 20 years old in a month and it will be 6 years since I
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 for the past few days and I am very touched by what kinds of families are out there. I am
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 my sophomore year of high school. My family is conservative. They did not put any pressure on me, I wasn’t
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, thank God I didn’t have any financial problems to this day. My family didn’t cause me any trouble when it
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 read their stories. While I thought I was the only one experiencing this oppression, a friend of mine told me
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 be what happens when they reach a certain age. There were always this pressure on me; constant words and insinuations…