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hijabize en · VERB

Etymology

From hijab + -ize.

Meanings

1. (rare) To adorn or cover with a hijab; to veil with hijab-like scarves.
   • Exemplary of tactical media production would be the work of Princess Hijab, whose provocative street art includes hijabizing adverts—painting black hijabs on commercial adverts for products such as jewellery and make-up. 2009, JG Payne, Feminist media as alternative media? A literature review:
   • When I see an interesting billboard or model that I find unusually arresting, I feel the impulse to hijabize is (y), to draw a black veil ... 2011, A Moors, Open space 98 NiqaBitch and Princess Hijab: Niqab activism, satire and street art:
   • The women's behaviors must also be hijabized. 2002, Insa Hartel, Body and Representation, Page 105
   • Princess Hijab began her work of “hijabizing” or “niqab interventions” on Western media advertisements on the Paris metro in 2006. 2011, EEK Kane, Eroticism and Vandalism: NiqaBitch and Princess Hijab on the Burqa Ban in France:

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