People who live with niqab.
Experiences shared by women who wear niqab, gathered from their own writing and channels, and submitted directly. Personal accounts are not doctrinal evidence, and are not presented as such.
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Submit your story28 February 2021
When everyone else started covering their faces too
For a while, mask mandates made niqab-wearing women less visible rather than more. Research interviewing sixteen women in the US and Europe found a real, if temporary, drop in the prejudice they described experiencing.
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