Ahmed is well-known in the
women in sports industry, a frequent commentator around intersectionality and freedom of identity practice within sports. In an interview with
The McGill Daily, Ahmed explained what being a sports activist was: Ahmed actively engages with media producers in mainstream and alternative groups. In one example, Ahmed responded to a documentary film about a
women's soccer team in
Zanzibar. In an interview with researchers for the study, "Radical Sports Journalism?: Reflections on 'Alternative' Approaches to Covering Sport-Related Social Issues," Ahmed explained, "The title of the movie was 'From Veils to Cleats.' I emailed them through Facebook. I didn't call them out. Basically, I said, when you use that title you're saying you can be either veiled or unveiled – that's it…If those women decide to take off their veils while they're playing that's their choice as long as they have a safe space to do it, but a lot of the women on that team don't unveil while they play so what are you actually saying here? So, they changed the title of their movie, which I felt was huge." She is part of the weekly podcast,
Burn It All Down, the first feminist sports podcast to analyze sports culture from an
intersectional feminist lens. Her co-hosts are
Hofstra University History Professor
Brenda Elsey, author and sportswriter Jessica Luther, Lindsay Gibbs of
ThinkProgress, and
Penn State University Professor of History and Women's Gender, and Sexuality Studies Amira Rose Davis. == Personal life ==