Her Afghanistan

  • Hate Speech Online and Offline

    We are not new to hate speech, but the rooms it happens in have changed. For most of history, a slur had to be spoken face-to-face, shouted across a street, or printed on a flyer. Today, the same words can be typed in seconds, seen by thousands, and shared with millions. It is tempting to…

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  • Hate Speech Against Afghan Girls

    Since the fall of Kabul in 2021, Afghan girls and women have been barred from secondary school and university and pushed out of most public life; they are not allowed to enter the workforce or, to be realistic, even to set foot outside their homes without a man. So what is there left to do?…

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  • Are You Going Or Not?

    My mother laid out my red shoes, the ones with the buckle. She said, tomorrow wear the good ones. I thought that meant we were going somewhere nice. She packed a bag and then she took things out of the bag and then she packed it again. Three times. My father stood in the doorway…

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