What Happened When Muslim Girls Started Playing Football

What Takes Root: Stories of Resistance and Reclamation by Karen Given

Episode notes

In 2012, almost on a whim, social justice leader Sabah Khan helped to found a football team for Muslim girls in Mumbra, India’s largest Muslim ghetto. But it wasn’t easy. From fighting for time on Mumbra’s crowded fields to overcoming societal pressures to keep girls indoors, Sabah explains how something as simple as playing a game can be a powerful act of resistance.

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