By: Mariam Amini I am like the ground that holds the roots My name changes with the passing of seasons…
Category: Poetry
I Will Write Every Day
When she closed her eyes, They said, if you open them, We will wash them with acid. When she opened…
Building a Sisterhood in Afghanistan
Eighty-seven percent of Afghan women have faced some form of physical or sexual violence, according to research by Global Rights. That…
Pursuing my dreams as an Afghan woman
Sitting by the window, I think about the past. I reflect on my grandmother my mother’s youth. My grandmother was…
Murals Promote Right to Education in Afghanistan
Today the Free Women Writers team gathered a group of artists and we painted murals about the right to education…
Four Ways to Support Gender Equality in Afghanistan
Learn. To make change, we must first have a nuanced and complex understanding of our status as Afghan women. Our…
International Women’s Day, Another Occasion to Fight Injustice
Written by MN* Today is the International Women’s Day and I am thinking about my uncle’s first wife who was…
Dare, A Poem for My Sisters
Written by Pashtana Durrani Dare to dream Dare to be brave Dare to be a soldier Dare to question the…
Where did my name go?
I am my father’s daughter as a little girl, My brother’s sister. People outside of my family do not know…
Finding our roots, seas apart
I think about my dokhtaraiy khala dokhtaraiy ama dokhtaraiy mama dokhtaraiy kaka. All my cousins, the babies and the boys,…