<p>This article examines the identifications and forms of public participation of Muslim women in Costa Rica, challenging dominant media representations that depict them as passive, oppressed, or absent from public life (Rodríguez, 2024). Drawing on participant observation and qualitative interviews with Muslim women—both converts and women raised within the faith—the study analyzes the tensions between external discourses produced by the media and broader Western narratives, and the women’s own self-perceptions. The findings reveal that, despite facing discrimination, exclusion, and prejudicial narratives that at times result in violations of their human rights, Muslim women in Costa Rica actively engage in processes of religious education, leadership, and community organization. Through activities of <i>da‘wa</i>, participation in public events, and the strategic use of social media, these women occupy and resignify public spaces, exercising forms of political agency (Spivak 1988) rooted in the religious sphere but with broader social and public implications. The article argues that these practices constitute alternative forms of political action that contest Orientalist and Islamophobic representations, enabling a transition from invisibility imposed by external actors toward the emergence of Muslim women as visible subjects of political and social agency within the Costa Rican context.</p>