Muslim women resist oppression narratives through the deliberate choice of colorful hijabs.

Evidence

Muslim women responded to this by controlling their dress. They exerted their agency by trying to change the narrative that Muslim women are oppressed and abused. Several of the Muslim women I interviewed admitted they tried to dismantle the myth that they were oppressed by wearing colorful hijabs. They felt darker colors made them appear oppressed and morbid to their fellow citizens. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 369

Categorization

• XREF: Dress-as-political-resistance connects to the reader’s prior map and to Complaints About Immodesty — clothing as identity signaling under scrutiny.
• SEED: Angle: the hijab color as a site of gendered micro-resistance — how quotidian aesthetic choices encode political defiance against surveillance.