%0 Journal Article %J Journal of Communication Inquiry %D 2018 %T Making Space in Social Media: #MuslimWomensDay in Twitter %A Pennington, Rosemary %X At the end of Women’s History Month 2017, social media sites were filled with posts using the hashtag #MuslimWomensDay. Muslim women have often been framed in media as either victims of a violent faith and its believers or enablers of that violence, rarely are they given the space to tell their own stories. The #MuslimWomensDay hashtag was designed to draw attention to the stories and experiences of Muslim women. This qualitative textual analysis of approximately 300 tweets explores how Twitter users deployed the #MuslimWomensDay hashtag in their posts in order to understand the story users told of what it means to be a Muslim woman as well as what narratives of Islam they had to fight against. %B Journal of Communication Inquiry %G eng %U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0196859918768797