Women of Shaheen Bagh in Transnational Digital Publics.
The Women of Shaheen Bagh as Muslim political actors foregrounded an alternative form of Indian nationalism defined by peaceful, artistic protest and leveraged their previous hyper-invisibility and rhetorical position as wives and mothers to advocate against the CAA-NRC. The Wire Twitter feed has an...
| Published in: | Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion (Indiana University Press) Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 163 - 167 |
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