Her Afghanistan: When Words Become Walls

  • Decree 01

    The first entry of a new series reads the Taliban’s 2024 Vice and Virtue Law, the decree that declared a woman’s voice must be hidden.

    Sienna Park

  • The Moderation Gap

    Much of the abuse aimed at Afghan women online stays up because the systems built to remove it cannot fully read it. The previous entry in this series examined what online hate speech costs Afghan women: deleted accounts, abandoned work, and voices withdrawn from public life. That raises an obvious question. If platforms prohibit harassment…

    Sienna Park

  • 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…

    Sienna Park