Category: Women and Life
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The Necessity of Writing in an Era of Repression; Women’s Storytelling Is the Recording of the Historical Memory of a Society Under Repression
Taliban rule can be considered one of the most radical forms of the systematic elimination of women from the public sphere in the contemporary world — an ideological order that, by employing a strict and exclusionary interpretation of religion, has sought to reduce women from a position of social leadership to silent and obedient subjects.…
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Storytelling: Recording the Suffering and Resistance of Afghan Women in the Darkest Days
Afghan women are spending their darkest days in the heart of a crisis — a crisis that has been deepening day by day for about five years and has systematically pushed women away from the social scene and even from human life. An imposed and forced life has been written for them, in which they…
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Menstruation: Between Silence and Isolation
I was thirteen years old; I said goodbye to my childhood world. I remember my first day of menstruation like the moonlight of a full moon night. I was surprised to see blood on my underwear, because I had grown up in a house with four older sisters, yet no one had ever spoken to…
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Resistance Beyond the Street; Afghan Women and Various Forms of Standing Up
As a protesting girl, I hope that a glimmer of hope and light will soon appear in Afghanistan and that the Taliban will step down from power. I do not see the resistance of Afghan women only in street protests. Although I wished the streets would never be empty, the very fact that Afghan women…
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