Celebrate Muslim women with film, discussion, sport and spoken word at Tate Modern with Stance Podcast. This is a free event with more info here.

This event will kick off with a drop-in poetry session facilitated by leading London poet and spoken word artist Hodan Yusuf.

Join in and learn the basic moves of fencing from how to lunge, parry and riposte!

Watch the film screening of Nobody's Metaphor, a film which follows the journey of four teenage girls from West London who embark on the Muslim Girls Fence project run by Maslaha and British Fencing. As the film unfolds, the initially reluctant girls find fencing coaching and poetry workshops new means to express themselves and speak back to people’s expectations of them as they talk about the anxieties they face and the impacts of sexism, racism and Islamophobia.

The film will end in a discussion chaired by President of the UK National Union of Students Zamzam Ibrahim to discuss the themes and wider implications faced by Muslim women and girls in Britain today. Speakers will include Dr Azeezat Johnson, a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London; Noor Palette, journalist, broadcaster, DJ, and Features Editor at AZEEMA magazine, focusing on underrepresented women globally; and Saimah Asghar, educator and secondary school teacher.