Muslim Women’s Day 2025 Is Cancelled – Here’s Why.

Eight years ago, we created Muslim Women’s Day to claim space that was never created for us. It became a day to center our voices, celebrate our resilience, and shift the global narrative about who Muslim women are and what we stand for. It has become one of the biggest and most influential media campaigns for our voices in the world.

And now, we’re sounding the alarm.

With Muslim Women’s Day aligning with Ramadan for the last time in the foreseeable future, we made the difficult decision to honor the justice that this holy month stands for by canceling our celebration of Muslim Women’s Day 2025. This year, it’s become more clear than ever that our fight isn’t just for symbolic representation. We’re fighting for the right to exist at all.

The censorship of Muslim women’s voices and our allies has already surpassed the fever-pitch of the 2017 Muslim ban that inspired Muslim Women’s Day in the first place. Right now, Muslim creators, journalists, students, storytellers and organizers are being disproportionately silenced at a moment when our voices are urgently needed.

Muslim women are being deplatformed on social media due to shadow bans and censorship; students are being expelled for exercising their right to free speech; activists are being deported for standing up for their communities. This isn’t a glitch, it’s systemic.

And this isn’t happening in the shadows. It’s happening in broad daylight. While the world watches events impacting our communities, the already underrepresented voices trying to tell that story are being muted. The chilling effect? It effectively silences the most vulnerable voices that are impacted by conversations about justice, equality, and human rights.

Let’s be clear: there’s no such thing as being a voice for the voiceless. Everybody has a voice, and there are those that are systematically silenced.

Muslim Women’s Day has convened an historic and global cohort of top partners across industries, from tech giants to organizational heroes and women’s media legacies, to completely transform the media landscape for women over the past decade. These new policies are disproportionately impacting our narratives and threaten to undo all that progress.

This is why Muslim Women’s Day matters more than ever.

Because every time they try to silence us, we only get louder.

But we can’t do it alone.

here’s how you can take action right now:

1. Speak out against censorship.
   Use your platform to call attention to the silencing of Muslim women—especially those speaking out about issues impacting their survival.
2. Share Muslim women’s content with renewed intention.
   Algorithms may suppress us, but people won’t. Repost, follow, tag, credit, and cite the creators, thinkers, and journalists that are under attack. Help their message survive.
3. Demand better from tech and media companies.
   Raise your voice for transparency around moderation policies. If you see some of your favorite creators and voices get taken down or left out of the conversation, don’t stay quiet. Write to platforms. Publicly question their decisions. Refuse to be complicit in silence.
4. Don’t let your representatives have a moment of quiet.
   Call the policymakers in your local communities and at the national level to make your voice heard. Push back against their support of policies that divide us. Encourage their support of the agendas that treat our communities with dignity and equality.
5. Use #MuslimWomensDay and social media to organize.
   This isn’t just a hashtag—it’s a digital protest. Flood the timeline with your truth and assemble with others to become a force. Together, our presence is impossible to ignore.

To every Muslim woman reading this: You were never meant to be quiet. You were born into a legacy of resistance. They might try to silence us, but what they fear most is that we’ll keep talking back anyway.

So, let’s show the world how Muslim Women Talk Back.

With unwavering love, sisterhood and solidarity,
Amani