Thank you so much.

First of all, I want to thank Dr. Dominic Miller for inviting me to give this webinar.

And also thank you all for joining me on Zoom today.

You know, it's truly is a pleasure speaking to you, although, you know, ideally, it would

have been so much better to meet with you in person.

But, you know, we can understand the current situation and circumstances won't allow us

to do that, but hopefully one day we would be able to meet in person.

So the talk I'm giving today is a byproduct of a research project that I've conducted

for nearly three to four years now on the reasons why women in Malaysia have chosen

to unveil, start wearing a hijab.

I'm hoping that it is aligned with the themes, issues and categories of analysis relevant

to your program, although now that you've introduced yourself, you do come from really

quite diverse backgrounds.

So I hope you'll be able to take something away from my talk today.

So particularly, I'm interested, I'm zooming in and making an emphasis on a particular

theme, which is strategic decision making and how they might be contextualized in the

matrix of power and in which gender and culture are very important variables.

But rather than using the term strategic, I'm actually using a different term and that

is being tactical and how sartorial decision making, how sartorial tactical decision making

might be played out in social domains of intimacy.

So I'm very happy to answer questions related to my talk or my research or any kind of interest

overlapping more generally at the end of my talk.

So the women who have stopped, who have worn the hijab for many years and then make the

decision to unveil, face a new set of challenges when presenting, justifying and adapting to

their new selves to others, but before they can immediately go outside without the hijab,

many may actually wear a range of head accessories.

So I'm just going to, I just realized that I haven't got this ready yet because I'm just

so excited to join you today.

Hang on a second, continue.

I just realized that I'm not allowed to share my screen.

I thought I had done it, but I just...

Yeah.

So I'm unable to share the things that I'm not allowed to share.

Never mind.

No, no, now it's possible.

I just clicked on the button.

Apologies there.

That was my mistake.

Okay.

So just going to sort of give you sort of an idea of what I'm really talking about here.

So my talk today focuses on atypical types of head covering.

So you could see that in the first and the second from your left to right.

And I'm interested in the kinds of clothing these women wear during this transitional

period.

So what are their hair and sort of clothing practices that...

It's really quite tricky.

So what are the hair and clothing practices chosen by these women and why?

And these are all what I call liminal states of embodiment after women have made the decision

to stop wearing the hijab, to unveil.

So the data from my talk today...