Lady Gaga opened Philip Treacy’s London Fashion Week exhibition with a bang in a hot pink transparent burqa and how fab it was!
I’m a Muslim, no one in my family wears head scarves or burqas therefore unsurprisingly I am in the burqas-are-opressive camp. Apparently not all women who wear them are forced (I believe there must at least be coersion or family pressure), however, this photo of Gaga made me think about the potential for burqas to be turned into a political tool for change or to at least have a sense of humour with. Take this photo of M.I.A:
This was from an event in 2010. Wouldn’t it be amazing if feisty feminist women turned the burqa’s anonymity to their advantage? I wonder what would happen…
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