American Muslim Women Resist Soft Target Stereotype

Hind Makki

The media often leans on easy tropes when describing Muslim women: we are villains, vixens, or victims (often simultaneously), but never agents of our own stories. There is absolutely an uptick in hate crimes against visibly Muslim women, but the challenge for the media is to report those stories without leaning on those old tropes.

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