Girls of the Crescent What Can You Do?

This week I interview Mena and Zena Nassiri, two sisters and  high school students from Michigan who founded a non-profit organization called Girls of the Crescent. Girls of the Crescent works to collect books with female muslim main characters before donating them to schools and libraries in order to increase diversity and representation in literature. Throughout our conversation we discuss where the inspiration for their organization came from, why culturally relevant role models and diverse storytelling in fiction is important, and how minority representation in literature and other forms of media can combat negative stereotypes which lead to Islamophobia and other xenophobic rhetoric.