Survival

Resistance and Resilience: Lessons from South Africa for Afghanistan’s Fight Against Gender Apartheid

The systemic discrimination and dehumanization that defined the apartheid era in South Africa is recognized by the world as a crime against humanity that must never be allowed to happen...

How We Women of Afghanistan are Defying Taliban Repression

AFGHANISTAN—In the four years since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, the regime’s atrocities have stripped away every space I once knew—invading both...

Education as Resistance: How Women in Afghanistan Fight Gender Apartheid Through Solidarity

In today’s Afghanistan, education is no longer just a human right denied; it has become an act of resistance. Since the return of the...

South African Women’s Resistance Holds Lessons for the Women of Afghanistan Fighting Gender Apartheid

When the Taliban seized power in 2021, the women of Afghanistan’s hard-won rights were swiftly erased. Bans on education, employment, and even access to...

Inside a Taliban Prison: A Protester’s Story

Following the Taliban’s 2021 takeover of Kabul, Narges Sadat took to the streets in protest along with other women. She faced violence and imprisonment, a...

“The Death of Hazaras Is Permissible”: Protesting the Taliban as a Minority Woman

After the Taliban seized control of Kabul in August of 2021, Tamana Rezaei took to the streets to demonstrate against rising gender apartheid in...

The Taliban’s Violence Ignited a Fierce Resistance Within Me

On August 21, Afghanistan’s de facto authorities formally published a 114-page document detailing the vice and virtue laws governing the private lives of women and men,...

Imprisoned & Tortured by the Taliban for Protesting Gender Apartheid

On August 15, 2021, Kabul fell to the Taliban. Zholia Parsi, who was in Kabul at the time, had spent fourteen years as a...