Walk A Mile In Her Hijab
"Everything Precious Is Covered"
Walk a Mile In Her Hijab seeks to educate people about the essence of hijab, including the headscarf, and why Muslim women wear it by allowing those who are interested to wear hijab for a day and get a glimpse of the experience.
On Wednesday, Walk a Mile in Her Hijab was an important event held in honor of IAW week. Basically, through the last two weeks of tabling, MSA was able to get over 200 girls to pledge to take part in this event. Walk a Mile in Her Hijab is an event where students take a pledge to go through the entire day with the hijab on. Thanks to the freshman committee, over 200 scarves were donated, Alhamdulillah. The annual photo of students who pledged to wear the hijab was taken in front of the IC.
From the event co-sponsored by Feminist Forum that followed, Tea Talk, women, hijabi, those who wore hijab for the day and those who did not, and men who also participated in this event through wearing the modesty t-shirt, gave their experiences and reflections about the day. Each individual had an interesting response. Some women really enjoyed their day. They were happy to see that no one at Loyola judged them. Freshman Ruhi Shethwala observed, “I saw that people