A Tehran court recently sentenced a mother, her daughter and their friend for protesting the compulsory hijaab. Over the past two years many other women have also been arrested for taking part in the #WhiteWednesdays movement – a movement which was started by Iranian women posting photographs of themselves wearing white sans their hijaab. In…
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Justice just for you, Beautiful.
Privilege. You’re privileged if you’re white. You’re privileged if you’re educated. A man. Rich. Onwards and downwards. There’s one privilege, however, that we don’t really like to talk about: the privilege of being attractive. Growing up I was one of those girls with more male than female friends. I remember being at school and sitting
An Inqilab Without Women
It’s imperative to say up front that no political party in Pakistan comes even close to allowing women the rights and liberties they deserve. This we must admit not because we’re cynics, but we acknowledge that there’s a lot more room in the glass to be filled with water. Any politician who makes vague promises…
Blindly Supporting Women? An Opinion
“A statement I often come across both online and otherwise is ‘here is another feminist tearing a woman down.’ And it gives me pause. I mean, the Boys’ Club does function well, maybe all we need to do is blindly back each other and our stances and we will empower enough women to make a difference?”
Whisper Networks in Pakistan?
“Besides the very real fact that our society doesn’t promote discourse on this matter and often victims of sexual harassment bear the weight of the crime more so than the actual perpetrator, why aren’t there more instances of sexual harassment cases in the news? There is also a pronounced discrepancy in the number of accusations and cases in the news in the US versus the UK.”