We reached out to four Muslim women activists and academics from Turkey, India and Afghanistan, to explore their perspectives on the #WomanLifeFreedom movement in a showing of transnational solidarity and friendship. Here are their voices.
Author: Dominik Drabent
Dominik Drabent is a former editorial intern for Ms. and a Ph.D. student in the Gender Studies program at Arizona State University. He earned his master’s degree in Gender & Women's Studies from Minnesota State University, Mankato, where he also was an instructor. His research interests are queer studies, feminist pedagogy, transnational feminism, the Middle East, Islamic feminism and Muslim sexualities.
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