Our education system was not built to raise children who were critical thinkers.

It is not safe to be Black in this country. We know that. It is not safe to be Muslim in this country. We know that, too.

“Why are you in charge of the Black Lives Matter Club? You’re not even Black.”

I work in an urban district with an overwhelmingly Latinx and Christian student body. For most of my students, I am the first woman who wears hijab that they have ever interacted with.

Teaching While Muslim is not intended to be a limited space for just our voices, but as Muslims continue to be vulnerable in the United States, we found it necessary to seek a space to call our own.