Volunteering gives Muslim women a sense of agency while silenced

Evidence

I went back to my high school and talked to one of my old teachers, [who taught] AP history courses, about Islam and what it really meant. I contacted her. I grew up in such a secluded town. They were racist. I grew up with confederates, people who thought the confederacy should still exist. I did it voluntarily. I felt like it was my one thing I could at least do to just inform other people and kind of stand up for what I believed in. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 399

Categorization

• SEED: Visceral interview material for the reader’s map — the interior experience of being a perpetual minority in a racist town, using education as a personal act of counteraction.