It’s a weight when you know with almost complete certainty that you are probably the only Muslim and Arab teacher they have ever had. I know everyone has their biases, including my students.

I work in an urban district with an overwhelmingly Latinx and Christian student body. For most of my students, I am the first woman who wears hijab that they have ever interacted with.

Teaching While Muslim is not intended to be a limited space for just our voices, but as Muslims continue to be vulnerable in the United States, we found it necessary to seek a space to call our own.