On 11 December 2019, the Indian Parliament passed the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), a discriminatory law that prevents access to citizenship to Muslims who seek refuge in India and, alongside the National Population Register (NPR) and National Register of Citizens (NRC), puts Muslims in India at risk of statelessness, detention and deportation. Soon after, thousands of people took to the streets to resist the CAA-NPR-NRC and protest the relentless anti-Muslim injustices at the hands of the State. On 15 December, the Police brutally attacked students at the Muslim-majority Jamia Milia Islamia University in Delhi who were protesting the CAA. In solidarity, mothers, grandmothers and neighbors of the students in the working-class Shaheen Bagh area of New Delhi gathered on a stretch of GD Birla Marg to protest the violence. The women – some of whom were first time protestors – spontaneously started a sit-in and catalyzed the one of the…

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