Wear the veil? Want to surf? No problem.

Surfing is huge in Australia, a country surrounded by water. For young Australian-Muslim girls who wear the veil water sports or lifeguarding has never really been an option. Until now. The "burkini" (bikini + burqa) is a wet-suit hijab basically. The full-length lycra suit with hijab head-covering is not too figure hugging to embarrass, but is tight enough to allow its wearer to swim freely. It will soon be manufactured in the iconic red and yellow of Australia's surf life saving movement. This comes out of some tense race relations between Lebanese and Christian Australians in 2005 and means that Muslim women's mobility is that much freer. Is there agency in veiling? Wearing a burkini? That's a question best left to graduate school.