Rasikh wears the keffiyeh not as fashion, but as an act of resistance. “It represents the ongoing struggle for freedom and the right to exist without occupation,” she wrote in an email to The Varsity.

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It hopes to make it available next year. "Fashion is a form of storytelling, a form of expression, and the reason we are all here today is that it can be a form of activism," said Bennett on stage.