Munira becomes the face of Trump resistance
Munira Ahmed, a Bangladeshi American had a photo taken of her covered in an American flag hijab back in 2007.
Now, a decade later, the image has become a symbol of the Women's Marches that took place across the globe, according to a report published in Mashable.
Munira, a 32-year-old New Yorker and Bangladeshi Muslim-American who has worked in digital media, told Mashable in a phone interview on Monday that it has been a "surreal" but "humbling" experience becoming one of the red-white-and-blue faces of Shepard Fairey's inauguration posters.
The artist who created the iconic "Hope" poster for Barack Obama's campaign released a series of posters in time for Inauguration Day last week and the Women's Marches held the day after.
The posters are part of a "We the People" campaign spearheaded by the nonprofit Amplifier Foundation.
Fairey's images show a diverse group of people resisting what they see as the hate, fear and racism connected with the new Trump administration. The posters were available to print for the Women's March in Washington, DC, and beyond last Saturday.
Munira, who made it down to DC for the march, saw posters of herself everywhere. "I needed to be there, it was important to me," she said.
The picture is from a 2007 photoshoot for the cover of Muslim-American magazine Illume by photographer Ridwan Adhami.
Munira heard that Fairey even received a call from Obama praising the work, which Munira was thrilled to hear.
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