TIME Magazineのインスタグラム(time) - 9月2日 01時00分

It’s a drizzly July afternoon, and friends have gathered in the family home of Nafisa Isa, photographed here with her mother Rubyna Isa, in Ashburn, Va., for their monthly #halaqa, an Islamic study group. The four women, along with a few other friends, been meeting regularly for #ChaiandChaat since 2016, when Isa decided to create a dedicated setting for her peers to discuss Islam and their experiences as Muslim American women. “We’re creating sisterhood and a soulful space where we can be vulnerable with each other, where we can express our emotions and be honest about how we’re feeling,” Isa says. “This group helps all of us deal with these broader issues of prejudice and violence.” There are halaqa groups across the country, but theirs is uniquely Millennial, Isa says — while they study the Quran, they also draw upon pop culture for discussion topics and add activities like visiting museums and crafting to their agendas. “We have these conversations about faith, personal growth, philosophy, theology, all the stuff that you would expect,” Isa says. “But then we’ll also paint unicorns.” In their regular meetings, all four share stories of being stereotyped or forced into prescribed boxes, both by members of their own communities and people outside of them. Each has her own way of finding her place in a culture loaded with misunderstandings about South Asians, #Muslims and #women — and together, they make a point to consider the vast range of experiences within Muslim Americans in all their diversity, recognizing that their point of view is limited. “A lot of people have a misconception that Muslim women don’t have their own minds, that they’re submissive people, or that they’re the exact opposite, where they’re ultra feminine,” says Adeela Khan, one of the members. “We’re not a monolithic group.” Isa and her friends are just some of the extraordinary women TIME is visiting on a cross-country road trip this summer. Read more at TIME.com/women-across-america. #TIMEroadtrip Photograph by @mirandabarnes for TIME

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