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What Gloria Taught Me
Gloria Steinem (right) and Alice Walker celebrate Steinem's 75th birthday in the Fall 2009 issue of Ms. magazine. By Ms. magazine, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47476755 This is the Gloria Steinem I remember. A fierce advocate for all...
What Dolly Taught Me
Dolly Parton and Carol Burnett, 1979. By Unknown author - eBayfrontbakc, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=54036707 This is the Dolly Parton I remember as a girl. On TV, singing, cracking jokes, friends with other mega-talented women,...
Rizwana Got Caught
Rizwana always breaks the rules and fools you. Just the other day, she hid the stone she had just borrowed from me and said it was lost. I don’t want to play with her anymore. I left the playground and sat on the side, watching her and Wajiha, her aunt’s daughter,...
Post-graduation Students
2026 has become the celebratory year when all my late nights, studious escapades, and strenuous research have paid off with a degree. Specifically in my case, and for millions of others, an undergraduate degree. The education system has moulded us into respectable...
What’s Wrong with Us?
Our family moved to Kabul when I was a year and half. We lived in the western side of Kabul in the early years. It was a beautiful, colorful, lively, and loud city. It had yet another side- the cruel side. Explosions, attacks, violence, unsafe. Poverty was another...
New Marriage Laws for Afghan Girls: The Unavoidable Loss
One day, in 2022, when we left the school for home as illegal students, I suddenly realized a girl in our school who was in grade 8th at the time, probably 14 or 15 years old, was getting married. We could hear the sound of music from the street from the morning, but...
Growing Up Means New Feelings: Inside Out 2 Review
Embarrassment, Ennui, Anxiety and Envy drop in unexpectedly on Joy, Fear, Sadness, Disgust and AngerPhoto credit: Disneyclips.com Headphones on, volume up! If you thought your brain was just a chaotic party with only Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust throwing the...
A Day in my Life
When I was a child, in the second or third grade in school, I was a lonely most of the time. That’s when I found writing as my companion on the way. So, whenever I had time or I was free, I used to write short imaginary stories. From then, the last thing I wanted to...
I am an immigrant
photo by Tahera K. I am an immigrant Her eyes shine, like two beautiful stones. Her face is covered with her big loose headscarf.A few strands of hair move in the rhythm of wind.She is holding her scarf with her thumb and index, so it doesn't fall off.She is holding...
Heroines Quilt IX: Renée Good
On January 7, 2026, Renée Good was murdered in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the Turbulent States of America by an immigration officer. Good embodied much that could be held up as both heroic and tragic. As a mother of three, an award-winning poet and described by her...