Voters/Society/Women
Afghan Women I Knew Before Taliban Leaders Takeover
What happened to Afghan women can serve as a stark warning for us in the US — a wake-up call for American women about the potential threats to their rights and freedom.
How do you define freedom for yourself and your children?
As a woman and a mother, I’m a long-term thinker for myself and my family. People often ask why I do somethings, and my answer usually revolves around what happens in the next five years or decades.
As a teenager, I read and knew about Afghan women as teachers, doctors, nurses, mothers, cooks, engineers, and professors — -then women ran most things in Afghanistan and men fought never-ending wars that the West supported and funded.
Today, Afghan women are underground without any right to exist as humans.
I was at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC. It’s a cheap place to visit and learn from the exhibits and the visitors. You can spend more time there, learning and observing people and things, and you can learn more about yourself, too.
