“The Best Damn Representation of Islam:” Muslims, Gender, Social Media, and Islamophobia in the United States

“The Best Damn Representation of Islam:” Muslims, Gender, Social Media, and Islamophobia in the United States

“The Best Damn Representation of Islam:” Muslims, Gender, Social Media, and Islamophobia in the United States
Stine Eckert, Sydney O’Shay Wallace, Jade Metzger-Riftkin, Sean Kolhoff Article Islamophobia reached new heights during the 2016 United States presidential election. We applied the theory of intersectionality to 15 in-depth focus group interviews conducted in gender-separated groups with 61 Muslim participants (41 women, 20 men) in South East Michigan between October 2016 and April 2017 to understand the role of gender in their responses regarding Islamophobia during the 2016 United States presidential election and Trump’s…