Category Gender and Class
As those of you who attended Lina Matta’s presentation are aware, Lina Matta is the definition of a film aficionado. Working in television media management and coordinating film festivals for the “well-read, well-traveled” population of Westchester, New York (read: 10th… Continue Reading →
Marie Gisele (featured in the below video) is the image of subversion in today’s music scene. A Brazilian Christian woman who converted to Islam seven years ago, Gisele is a thrash metal guitarist…who performs in a full niqab. Naturally, her… Continue Reading →
I recently came across an article by Hissa Hilal from 2011 on a particular idea of Islam that has come to dominate society. Hissa Hilal may not be famous outside of the Gulf region, however she is the first female… Continue Reading →
Shadia Mansour is a revolutionary in many ways, and just about the definition of counter-culture. Within orthodox Muslim culture, her spoken vulgarity would be frowned upon despite her gender, but is especially so because she is a woman. Within… Continue Reading →
The discussion in class today on cross-cultural dialogue and the politics of representation, both intimately interwoven into location-specific gender narratives, made me think of a binary approach to popular culture and art by some Muslim artists who are of the community they… Continue Reading →