Deconstructing the Binary of the Slut and the Burqa-Clad Woman

Deconstructing the Binary of the Slut and the Burqa-Clad Woman

When people pontificate on my freedom or lack of it because of my burqa, this is the reality that none of them sees. For all the love of revolutions and disruptive activism, we forget to acknowledge a nuance where not everything is a violent disruption. There is a ‘quiet activism’ where we change things from within. It is impossible to embody values that stress a community and then expect them to reform in any way. Nobody trusts an outsider.