Jennifer Chowdhury
Jennifer Chowdhury is an independent journalist based in New York City and Bangladesh. She covers the South Asian and Muslim diaspora with a specific focus on gender rights. She is passionate about covering stories on women of color around the world whose voices are stifled by patriarchal attitudes, systematic racism and socioeconomic burdens.
Latest articles by Jennifer Chowdhury
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Why Ilhan Omar's Victory Speech Starting With an Islamic Greeting Is So Important
She's one of the first two Muslim women in Congress—ever.
By Jennifer Chowdhury Published
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Conservative Muslims and Islamophobes Have One Thing in Common: Hating Mona Haydar
The Muslim-American rapper is breaking every rule to dismantle the patriarchy within Islam—and outside of it.
By Jennifer Chowdhury Published
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It's a Problem That We're Not Talking About Jimmy Kimmel's Mahershala Ali Jokes
What's in a name? When you're a minority, everything.
By Jennifer Chowdhury Published
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From a Refugee Camp to Yeezy Season 5: How Halima Aden Made It in America
Just five days after she got signed, this hijab-wearing model booked one of the biggest gigs in fashion—and she's not stopping there.
By Jennifer Chowdhury Published
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We're Focusing on the Wrong Things About Omar Mateen
Why is his history as a domestic abuser not a bigger part of the conversation?
By Jennifer Chowdhury Published
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This Is What the Future Looks Like: Noor Tagouri Is on Track to Become America's First News Anchor in a Hijab
#LetNoorShine
By Jennifer Chowdhury Published
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With No Other Job Options, Greek Women Are Turning to Sex Work to Stay Afloat
The money troubles in Greece go so much deeper than lines at the ATM. Here, a look at how prostitution has soared in the wake of the crisis.
By Jennifer Chowdhury Published
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Fadumo Dayib Is Risking Her Life to Be Somalia's First Female Presidential Candidate
"You're going into a boxing match even though your hands are tied behind your back."
By Jennifer Chowdhury Published
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Indiana Sentences a Woman with Feticide for the First Time, a Pivotal Case in the Fight for Reproductive Rights
She's facing 20 years for what she says was a miscarriage.
By Jennifer Chowdhury Published
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What the Country's First All-Female Mosque Means For Muslim-American Women
In a word: community.
By Jennifer Chowdhury Published