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‘I’ve seen what happens when the public space is infringed upon by the religious. My medical career took me to Saudi Arabia, aged 31, where I was mandated by law to wear the hijab, covering all of my hair and neck. And with it the abbayah, a cloak covering my entire body from my neck to my ankles. For those two years, I became intimately acquainted with the cumbersome nature of forced veiling and its impracticality — even seeing it imposed upon my unconscious female patients.’

‘Quick! Hypertonic saline!’

‘Fuck that. Get this chick an abbayah.’

Margaret Soltan, July 6, 2019 1:56AM
Posted in: democracy

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