Join us for the sixth episode of our “In Conversation” series on March 25th at 11:30am ET featuring Sana Patel and Reyhab Patel, and moderated by Fatima Syed.

Navigating social media has become a difficult and unavoidable task for many Muslims because of the prevalent and easily accessible uses of social media that allow digital Islamophobia to prevail. The impacts digital Islamophobia are not strictly online, but they impact Muslims’ lives in offline spaces as well – taking the burden of dealing with Islamophobia online into their everyday offline lives and seeing them in real life taking Muslims’ lives away through massacres like the Quebec mosque shooting which took the lives of many Muslims who were simply in their places of worship, or the Afzaal family in London, Ontario who were simply just taking a walk down the street. It is no doubt that the perpetrators of Islamophobia were influenced or had connections to anti-Muslim hate in online spaces, whether they were part of White supremacist groups or anti-Muslim/xenophobia online groups and forums.

We will discuss storytelling to combat digital Islamophobia which is a crucial part of the everyday and how we navigate our experiences. We will discuss how Muslim women use various forms of storytelling practices such as (and not limited to) digital art, song writing, fashionable expression to overcome digital hate.