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Fareen Ali is a college student who loves to eat chocolate. She has written for MuslimGirl and Lip Magazine.
Teen girls often get into cosplay, or costume play, for the creative expression and community it provides. But they can also face infantilization and harassment from outsiders. As a teenage girl, you always have to be careful,” says one cosplayer.
Even Muslim teen girls who don’t wear religious clothing have to deal with Islamophobia. One teen used to spend hours arguing with people until “I gradually realized that people are going to be ignorant no matter what.”