You may fail to see the so called empowerment in my act of subduing to the norms of what you perceived as an obviously patriarchal religion, but I believe that Islam and Quran itself—like any other religions and its texts, are widely open for interpretation resulting in one's comprehension that in no way can be generalized.
I, with full consciousness, choose to cover this way because I'm fighting against a systematic oppression in which women's bodies are being commodified and objectified and sexualized. This is my kind—a different form of empowerment resulting in that when I'm in public, my whole self is in my own control, and that's including my body and my gender and my sexuality. People have to deal with me and my brain and my abilities and who I really am without having to judge the body and physical traits I inherently born with. I know, people will always judge anyway, but the point is, in my opinion, feminism is about respecting people's choices and backgrounds and understanding how different things empower different humans.
You may embrace your ultimate freedom through your nudity because you are so done with the society oversexualizing your mammalian glands, while at the same time I may liberate myself through the twist of my hijab because I want to be the only one who's in control of even one single hair strand of mine. And that's completely fine because on the bigger scale, oh dear my fellow sisters, we are still in the same line of a fight against the same kind of enemy.
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