Elephant and Castle

Right.

And as promised, I am going to talk to you about the workshop that I'm organising for Welding, which is in Elephant and Castle, a borough in London.

It's an arts and residency space.

It's also an event space.

Carr established the name Forty Thieves from the number of women who initially banded together.

But as their influence grew, it was colloquially renamed after Elephant and Castle, the street where they were based.

Alice Diamond took the reins in the 1920s and brought a new flair.

She pushed her girls to dress like film stars, think furs, pearls, and hats that hid pockets.

You know, we are the targets when anybody has a hijab.

thing that they want to hate on Islam we're visibly Muslim right so we're the ones that get get the brunt of it and I think more and more Muslim women are getting into combat sport which I've seen online and it's so lovely to see it and I just think it's really important I'm actually starting a women's only boxing class which I'm going to be running it's going to be in Elephant and Castle in South London so yeah it's going to be a safe space for women you know Muslim and non-Muslim to come and to learn just the kind of the basics of boxing and yeah learn how to defend yourself So I think it's really important.

Absolutely.

You know, Mashallah, a really