This is a Letter to Your Beautiful Mind from the scarfhead you glanced at uneasily as you went past in the street today the one you judged and dismissed in the fraction of a second it took for your eyes to transmit the image to your brain. it is being written out of a weary kind of anger because really i mean it's only a scarf. Relax the first response: go with your gut i wear it because i want to. deal with it. the second response: politics and the fine art of the reactionary no i'm not oppressed no i don't come from iran no i'm not a fundamentalist hey. Hey! I'm TALKING to you-- third response: the appeal to intellect by reason my scarf, my resolve, my love achieved after seventeen years of edging apologetically toward this fringe far out Islamic way of life will command your respect: assert my right to dignity over the insolent stare of disbelief, contempt, or pity will declare with pride our name, out faith, our identity will LIBERATE my SISTERS from becoming VICTIMS OF PATRIARCHAL SEXIST TYRANNY!! ...will keep my ears quite warm in winter, actually... from Rahat Kurd
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TRUTHFULLY I FEEL NAKED WITHOUT MY HIJAB MY SCARF ITS BECOME A PART OF ME WHEN THE KIDS AT WORK ASK ME TO TAKE IT OFF I SIMPLY TELL THEM... THAT ME TAKING OFF MY HIJAB WOULD BE AS IF THEY TOOK OFF THERE PANTS WE HAVE THEM ON FOR A REASON AND THERE IS A UNCOMFORT FEELING WITHOUT IT.
