The case of Lubna Al-Hussein, dubbed “the pants journalist,” who was sentenced to flogging after an arrest by public-order police in Sudan, in July 2009, became one of the most widely reported narratives about the subordination of Muslim women in the world. Her case mobilized human rights advocates, politicians, and diplomats to contest discrimination against Sudanese women and to shame the government of Sudan. In this article, I show that beyond media sensationalism and the logic of saving and shaming that characterizes human rights practices exists a feminist opposition politics concerned with equal citizenship rights and invested in protesting both local and global hegemonies and oppressions. I argue that Lubna’s pants served as a symbolic site for competing visions about morality and freedom. One vision represents a transnational hegemony anchored in a neoliberal moral ethos and in discursive practices of universal humanitarianism and human rights, and the other represents a translocal political order grounded in religiosity and bodily containment. Both visions, however, render women’s struggles visible on exclusionary moral terms. I suggest that Lubna’s transnational visibility be situated in a critical historical moment, a state of vulnerability and moral panic that characterizes the present location of Sudan in the global political map. At this historical juncture, feminist politics lend legitimacy to Sudanese translocal dissent politics and highlight women’s multiple alliances and the competing hegemonies that constrain their political struggle.