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BY YASMINE MOHAMMED

No Hijab Day is a day to support brave women across the globe who want to be free from the hijab. Women who want to decide for themselves what to wear or what not to wear on their heads. Women who fight against either misogynist governments that will imprison them for removing their hijab or against abusive families and communities that will ostracize, abuse and even kill them.

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This day is to address those atrocities and to ask the world to pay attention to the fact that millions of women on our planet are without their basic rights as human beings.

This issue of forced hijab is personal to me. I intimately understand what it’s like to have it put on you as a child, and then to not have the option to remove it as an adult.

When I was nine, my mother put the first hijab on my head. I knew it was coming. My family had been hinting at it for a while: “Oh look how you’ve grown! It will be time for you to wear a hijab soon!”