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• No school beyond grade 6 for girls.

• No university, no jobs, not even nursing or working for the UN.

• No public spaces :parks, gyms, beauty salons, even restaurants are forbidden.

• No freedom of movement without a male guardian.

• No voice in public, sometimes not even at home if men can hear.

• No bodily autonomy, contraceptives banned, justice system weaponized, women flogged and stoned.

This isn’t “culture.” It’s the deliberate destruction of female existence in public and private life.

And yet… the world shrugs.

Why? Because women’s rights are always treated as negotiable. It’s not complex. It’s patriarchy with guns.

We don’t need “awareness.” We need rage that doesn’t fade and solidarity that doesn’t stop when the headlines do. Afghan women are resisting every single day, often at the risk of prison, torture, or death. The least we can do is refuse to normalize their oppression.

Silence is complicity.

Siouxsie And the Banshees (1982)

Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture Collection Fall/Winter 1981-82. Cocktail dress in black silk velvet. The bodice in sculptural black velvet (Moreau), the sculpted neckline meet a burst of gathered black silk satin to the knee.

Yves Saint Laurent Collection Haute Couture Automne/Hiver 1981-82. Robe de cocktail en velours de soie noir. Le corsage en velours noir sculptural (Moreau), le décolleté sculpté rencontrent une rafale de satin de soie noir froncé jusqu'au genou.

Lenin, communist

Marx, communist

Trotsky, communist!

Stalin, NO

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