2/5 18:00 Scenen, Linköpings Stadsbibliotek

Zara Kay is an ex-Muslim atheist, secular activist and women’s rights activist. She is the founder of Faithless Hijabi, an international non-profit organisation that seeks to support the rights of Muslim-raised women, especially those who are in the process of leaving or have left Islam.

She will join the Swedish Secular Humanists (Förbundet Humanisterna) on stage in a conversation about women’s experiences within the muslim community, the restrictions imposed on them and the frustration of having no agency to your body. The expextations of wearing a hijab and the the negligence when it comes to seeing women’s issues in different communities and how not talking about it does a deservice to women in those communities who can otherwise thrive if we applied a consistent standard of human rights or feminism.

The conversation will be conducted in English.