As a journalism student I’ve always thought about how curious it is regarding how the media, such as news broadcasting, films, music, and art can shape a society’s perspectives of an issue, of a person and of a group. Lately we have been asking for more fairer representation within different sectors of our society and how we can change harmful perspectives that can indeed affect people in their daily lives. So for today’s discussion

I invited Anisa Omar, to help us talk through the misconceptions people have of muslin girls and how it can correlate with westernised misconception coming from the media at large. Anisa was on the cover of British Vogue last year in celebration of the effort made by essential workers during this pandemic and dear Anisa was there to represent both the supermarket assistants and muslin girls of colour.

Obviously, as a cis white man, I don’t have neither the experience nor the proprietary to address such matter alone so Anisa kindly shared with me the misconceptions people have of what Islam is and how living as a muslin girl is a constant battle against what people think you should be against what you actually are.