mother i am told i have your eyes and yet what you see as life, i see as a graveyard…
Category: Poetry
For the Afghan Women Who Came Before Us
This is for all the women who bent their heads so we could stand tall. Courage is not always loud….
My Identity
I am a daughter. I am the daughter of a woman who smiled when I was born. That woman who…
A Letter to My Daughter: Be Brave
By Frozan Sarwary Dear daughter, Wake up! I have woken up from ignorance today and I am waking you up…
Art Can Let Afghan Women Express Our Unique Selves
Hangama Amiri is an up-and-coming Afghan-Canadian artist. She graduated from NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia and was a Canadian…
Afghan Women Are My Heroes
This is a “Thank you” to all the women who provide the bulk of the world’s unpaid and unappreciated labor,…
Always a Survivor
When he touched her, She never wanted it, but that was never his concern. When he raped her, He said…
Loving a Refugee
To commemorate World Refugee Day, this poem was written by an Afghan woman whose husband is a refugee abroad. Loving…
Afgherican
American – as my passport states Afghan – as my parents reiterate Growing up, in-between In a state of red,…
Who stands behind a successful woman?
Zahra WZ There isn’t always a man behind a successful woman. Sometimes there is her strong spirit, That promised to break…