When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan on August 16th, 2021, there was a sense of Deja Vu. Decades after 9/11, just as scholars had become able to criticise the white feminist saviour narrative that justified the ‘war on terror in the name of saving Muslim women, it seems that history is repeating itself. I …
For women and other marginalized genders, who make up more than half of the world’s population, sexual violence is an everyday reality. But when language is created by the privileged, those that violate instead of being violated, how would we know what happens when someone violates another sexually? How would we understand the harm it …
Women’s struggle has never been individual. Also, it has never been against men, despite how misogynist propaganda depicts it. It is against the patriarchal system that treats women as less than human. Patriarchy is a system where we, men-women, and all genders live and negotiate. It is not the duty of individual women to break …
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