'If You Want Some Pussy, Give Us Freedom': Girls' Taboo-Breaking Humor Between the Subversive and the Normative.

This article examines the interactional humor practices of three 17-year-old Muslim girls attending an after-school youth club in a multiethnic area of Sweden, focusing on how their taboo-breaking humor negotiates and shifts identity positions related to gender, religion, and feminism. Drawing on seven months of ethnographic fieldwork and an audio-recorded conversation, the study highlights how the girls collaboratively co-construct humor that simultaneously challenges stereotypes of the humorless Muslim and the nonlaughing feminist, while fostering friendship and shared enjoyment. Their humor involves playful, transgressive talk about topics such as war, sexuality, and faith, revealing the complexity and ambivalence of their identities without adhering to fixed political or social positions. The findings contribute to research on gender and humor by addressing the underexplored domain of girls’ taboo-breaking humor and its affective, performative role in identity construction within multiethnic youth contexts.