A Girl Talk throwback episode! This show was recorded live at The Hideout in Chicago on December 27, 2016.
In November 2016, the F.B.I. reported a spike in hate crimes nationally, but most of that racial hatred was directed towards Muslims. The last time things were this bad was in the aftermath of 9/11.

What will happen to Muslims under Trump? And even if he decides not to start some sort of fascist “registry,” what are American Muslims doing to fight this hatred and protect their families?

This month, The Girl Talk welcomes three fierce Muslim women who will school us on what American Muslims are dealing with in this brutal political climate, and tell us how we can support the Muslim community moving forward.


This month, proceeds from the show will go towards helping homeless women in the Uptown neighborhood. We are working with The Healing Corner to organize & purchase essential items to help these women during the coldest months of the year.


OUR GUESTS:

NADIAH MOHAJIR is the co-founder and Executive Director for The HEART Women & Girls Project. For the last seven years, she has led a national team of people to organize the Muslim community and lead awareness campaigns, educational workshops, and professional develop training on stigmatized topics. She and her staff continue to break many cultural barriers and raising awareness about important issues such as sexual and reproductive health, sexual violence and media literacy.
She has worked in healthcare for over ten years in a variety of settings, including, but not limited to research, academics, policy, and community health. In the past, she was a consultant for the Office on Women’s Health (OWH) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, working on a variety of different projects focusing on minority health in the Midwest.

Prior to her work at OWH, Nadiah worked on a research project focusing on improving pregnancy outcomes of low-income Chicago women.

HIND MAKKI is an interfaith educator who holds a degree in International Relations from Brown University. She develops and delivers workshops on active citizenship through interfaith action, anti-racism education and youth empowerment. Hind is a former Fellow of the American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute (AMCLI) and is currently a Religious Advisor to the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange & Study (YES) Program.

Hind is the founder and curator of "Side Entrance,” a crowd-sourced website documenting women's prayer experiences in mosques around the world. She is the co-chair of the Islamic Society of North America's Mosque Inclusion Taskforce and was an adviser to the Institute of Social Policy and Understanding project, "Reimagining Muslim Spaces."

Hind's work has been featured on Al Jazeera English, Chicago Public Radio, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Economist, The Huffington Post, National Public Radio, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Follow her on Twitter @HindMakki

REEMA AHMAD is a community organizer with experience in political, electoral, and issue-based campaigns. She collaborated with community leaders to co-found Project Mobilize, a 501(c)4 political action organization dedicated to increasing civic participation and representation from politically marginalized communities across Chicago and surrounding suburbs. Ahmad later joined Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Chicago, where she managed the Pan-Asian Voter Empowerment Coalition of 13 social service community-based organizations. Ahmad directed strategic community outreach for the Jesus "Chuy" Garcia's mayoral campaign in Chicago. Most recently, Ahmad managed a state representative campaign in Chicago and the second most diverse district in the country for Asian American and Muslim American candidate Harish I. Patel.


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