Recently Nike has been working towards being more inclusive of all athletes and sports lovers around the world. And it’s going to launch the all-new Pro Hijab for Muslim sportswomen. The idea of making this line came after UAE weightlifter Amna Al Haddad visited Nike’s Sport Research Lab. New garments were wear tested by elite Nike athletes, like groundbreaking Emirati figure skater Zahra Lari.
“I was really hesitant when I first saw it,” said Lari. “I was thrilled and a bit emotional to see Nike prototyping a Hijab, but I’ve tried so many different hijabs for performance, and with how fast I spin on the ice and in training, so few of them actually work for me. But once I put it on and took it for a spin on the ice, I was blown away by the fit and the light weight.”
The Nike Pro Hijab is set to release in 2018 spring. It’s going to change perception of Muslim women athletes, help to break barriers and inspire more women to be pioneers in sport.
Sea: I love you, come with me down to the depths where the darkness and pressure are infinitely crushing, where no person has touched, where time does not exist
Me: but I will die?
Sea: …your point?
you, a fool: faeries only mistreat those who mistreat them or the earth; clearly, you did something wrong.
me, an intellectual: sometimes faeries wanna and are gonna kick your ass in particular for no good reason and that’s just the way it is
Two nights ago, I attended a party hosted by our bird rehabber friends. I met an old German woman there with waist-length gray hair, crooked teeth, and wild magic. Fitting, in a wildlife rehabber.
She couldn’t speak to animals, of course – she wasn’t Doctor Doolittle. But she was able to raise newborn rabbits with a 70% survival rate, which is phenomenal. She said it was higher for rabbits that were simply orphaned rather than injured, but most rehabbers don’t even accept bunnies because they have such low survival rates and are so demanding on a rehabber’s time and resources.
Her secret, she said, was just that animals simply do not find her intimidating. She can’t scare off a squirrel by chasing after it because it does not perceive her as a threat. Wild rabbits are difficult to raise from infancy in large part because they’re so easily terrified, and their little hearts burst from panic when being tended to by a human. Unless that human doesn’t register as a threat, supposedly.
She also claims to have lifted whole families of skunks out of window wells by hand, without being sprayed or nipped at at all. Personally, I think I’d be less nervous wrestling a saltwater crocodile.
The Carving Witch 