Afghan Girls Struggle with Wrong Traditions
When I tell my friends that my brothers wash their clothes by themselves, they laugh and say, “You are lying! Our brothers don’t even go to kitchen for a glass of water.”
A Girl in Boy’s Clothes
by AWWP | May 23, 2013 | Asma M., Latest Poems, Teenage Writers Workshop
I deserved to go to school, but if I am a girl how could I?
So I wore my brother’s clothes and I cut my hair
Burqa
by AWWP | May 19, 2013 | Asma M., Latest Poems, Teenage Writers Workshop
I know burqa is not in Islam,
But how can I say this to ignorant people?
AWWP Writing
- AWWP Stories & Essays
- AWWP Poems
- Oral Stories Project
- Oral Stories Project 1: Widows (March 2013)
- Oral Stories Project 2: Education (July 2013)
- Oral Stories Project 3: Women in Business (Sept. 2013)
- Oral Stories Project 4: Love and Forgiveness (Nov. 2013)
- Oral Stories Project 5: Maternity and Childbirth in Afghanistan (July 2014)
- Oral Stories Project 6: Ramadan (July 2014)
- Oral Stories Project 7: Gender Violence (Dec. 2014)
- Oral Stories Project 8: Human Rights (Feb. 2015)
- Oral Stories Project 9: Our Daily Lives (April 2015)
- Oral Stories Project 10: Women Under Burqa Talk About Women’s Rights (Sept. 2015)
- Teenage Writers Workshop
- Justice for Farkhunda
- Provinces of Afghanistan
- 2014 Afghan Elections Project
- Campaign for Love and Forgiveness