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Comedian Zainab Johnson on Hijabs Off, her family, and religion

ZAINAB JOHNSON never intended to be a comedian. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Harlem with her 12 siblings, she was neither the family jokester nor the class clown. “I always considered myself a very serious person,” she says. “I’m the person that is annoyed by the class clown, and that’s what’s funny about me: The class clown is going to get on my nerves, and I’m going to tell everybody and imitate him or her.” But around the age of 10, her mother sneaked her into Harlem’s Uptown Comedy Club to watch her…

Iran plans to use facial recognition technology to identify and prosecute women without hijabs- Technology News, Firstpost

Mehul Reuben DasJan 12, 2023 11:30:48 ISTIn a new development that seems to be coming from some dystopian future, Iran has announced that it plans to use facial recognition technology to identify and prosecute women who defy the country’s strict and draconian hijab laws. There is a suspicion that Iran might already be using facial recognition technology to prosecute women, and that Jina Mahsa Amini, may have been arrested because of Iran’s use of facial recognition. Image Credit: Pexels Critics of facial recognition