When writer-director Nida Manzoor began dreaming up season 2 of We Are Lady Parts, the comedy about an all-female Muslim punk band, one of her earliest ideas was a song: Malala Made Me Do It, a neo-Western hype track celebrating activist Malala Yousafzai. And then she had another idea: maybe she could get Malala, whom she had met briefly at a talk, to star in the video.

She wrote Yousafzai a love letter. To Manzoor’s surprise, Yousafzai, who loves comedy, responded. And this is why, in the second episode of the new season of We Are Lady Parts – which is streaming on Stan – Yousafzai appears on a horse, resplendent in a white cowboy hat, while the band irreverently sings her praises: “Nobel Prize at 17/the baddest bitch you’ve ever seen.”