Headscarf Day

In mid-October, an Afghan woman was gunned down on the street, in broad daylight, in Fremont, California. Most seem to agree that she was murdered because she was wearing a Muslim headscarf, and this past Monday women leaders in the community organized a "Wear a Hijab to Work Day." There's a lot to discuss here, and about the talk I gave last week at McGill University called "'Beauty and the Burka:' Makeovers and Global Feminisms" at which I was thrilled to meet Homa Hoodfar, and about the recent move in the Netherlands to ban the burka from all public spaces (which is worn by a small number of women in the Netherlands, suggesting that what is at stake is much more than, if not completely irrelevant to, "women's oppression"), but I'm on my way to Chicago. Hopefully, I'll figure out how to juggle my schedule and this transition soon.