NAME IT FIRST

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For Somali American Women

Between the Hijab and the Horizon

Between your faith and the future you are building, there is a woman naming herself.

This is for:

For the Somali American woman working through the intersection of Somali cultural expectations, refugee history, Islamic faith, and the life she is choosing.

You'll produce:your Your Somali American Self-Declaration

The Name It First Experience

You have spent your life in America explaining yourself — your name, your dress, your faith, your origin. This workbook is the first space that already knows who you are and asks what you want. The output is not an explanation for anyone else. It is Your Somali American Self-Declaration — a stress-tested and signed document naming who you are on your own terms.

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Sample questions

  1. What does it feel like to be seen in layers that the people around you rarely understand all at once?
  2. What did the displacement and rebuilding ask of the women in your family — and what has it asked of you?
  3. What are you choosing, between what Somali culture expects and what American life presents — and what is that choice costing you?

Research basis

Cross on Nigrescence / Berry on refugee acculturation / Brah on diaspora / Kleist on Somali migration / Islamic feminist scholarship on faith and self-determination

Choose your format.

Every format asks the same questions and produces the same document.

Print Paperbackpersonalize

A real book and a pen. Write in the margins. The most permanent version of you on a page.

$19.99

eBook + journal

The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.

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Audiobook

We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.

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Hardcoverpersonalize

The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.

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Digital Fill + membership+membership

Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.

$9.99

Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership

Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.

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Choose your pace.

The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.

Essential path

Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.

Full depth

Every question. Every scenario, every angle.

Paper doesn’t change its mind.

Thoughts change. Documents don’t. The answers you write are there when you return — unchanged by memory or mood.

You won’t just feel clearer — you’ll have written proof of what you decided.

Writing is the mechanism by which internal clarity becomes external evidence. Evidence you can return to, share, and hold someone — including yourself — accountable to.

Every question is answerable by everyone.

Every question in every title is answerable by the person for whom the assumed experience is true and by the person for whom it is not. No reader is excluded by how a question is built.

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