we ve lived in the shadow of 9/11 for a decade. it was in that moment that the world was divided into us and them. that as a 20-year-old college kid, i found myself, my family and thousands of other muslims, south asians, latino americans suddenly found themselves on the wrong side of the line. we became automatically suspect, potentially terrorists, perpetually foreign. in the last ten years, there have been resurgences of anti-muslim rhetoric over and over and over again. what s different about this moment is in a time of economic instability and in an election season, there are those who have realized they can use anti-muslim bias as a tool of oppression, to gain political points, to gain a profit. that is what s most troubling about where we are today. now, part of what i ve been interested in your work, so you re siek.
something that s been for a decade now. talk to me about your work around the post-9/11 moment and the anti-muslim rhetoric. we ve lived in the shadow of 9/11 for a decade. it was in that moment that the world was divided into us and them. that as a 20-year-old college kid, i found myself, my family and thousands of other muslims, south asians, latino americans suddenly found themselves on the wrong side of the line. we became automatically suspect, potentially terrorists, perpetually foreign. in the last ten years, there have been resurgences of anti-muslim rhetoric over and over and over again. what s different about this moment is in a time of economic instability and in an election season, there are those who have realized they can use anti-muslim bias as a tool of oppression, to gain political points, to gain a profit. that is what s most troubling about where we are today. now, part of what i ve been