Linda Sarsour - Haters Gonna Hate: How to Manage the Opposition

About this lecture

In this energetic and deeply personal lecture, activist Linda Sarsour reflects on her experience as one of the most publicly targeted Muslim American activists in the country, tracing the opposition she has faced from the alt-right, right-wing Zionists, and even within the Muslim community itself. Drawing on her role as a co-organizer of the Women's March, her response to the controversy over her use of the word "jihad," and the killing of Stephon Clark, she makes a passionate case for intersectional organizing, coalition-building, and refusing to let opponents define Muslim identity or practice. Her central message: stand unapologetically in your power, build alliances across communities, and let opposition be your motivation rather than your reason to retreat.