As a Muslim woman who wears a niqab (face veil) in America, I’m thankful that I haven’t had to experience a traumatic incident of Islamophobia, unlike most of my friends.
Hafsa Siddiqui is a 5th Grade Reading and Social Studies teacher on the northside of Chicago and a graduate student at the University of Illinois-Chicago. She is the co-author of the Countering Anti-Muslim Racism in Schools curriculum.