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Ramble of the Day

Last week, the BBC published an article about Sisterhood FC, a grassroots club thought to be the first women’s Muslim football club in the UK. Founder Yasmin Abdullahi spoke about creating the club and her hopes of expanding it, and I found the piece to spotlight both the community a grassroots club can bring and the impact representation has.

Abdullahi spells out the importance of creating her team early in the piece, writing about conversations she had at an event celebrating Iftar:

I would tell them I studied education studies and I’m in a women’s football team for Goldsmiths – and they gasped.

They were literally asking “you wear a hijab and play football?”

I didn’t understand why it was such a shock, because nothing made me ever stop playing sports, not if I’m a girl, not if I’m Muslim, nothing has ever…



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