A Humble Attempt at Hope (Post #14)
#14 15 August 2021 by Shamayel Shalizi I was sitting in my then girlfriend’s apartment in Sarajevo, as I made arrangements for my father’s funeral, over the phone to Afghanistan....
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The Fetishisation of Nadia Nadim (Post #13)
You know what this refugee narrative is really used for? To perpetuate capitalism. Mhm. The C word. Because when we talk of Nadia’s story, we are never saying “oh I...
Guest Submission: The Current State of Ghazni (Post #11)
The security is getting worse day by day, we were actually hopeful that the "peace" talks between the government and the Taliban would bring some kind of peace or at...
The True Oppressors of Brown Women are White Men: A Case Study from Berlin, Germany (Post #10)
Though the liberation of Afghan women (and other non-white women) looks very different than what the West portrays it as/bases their invasion on, there are still many problems in the country-...
A Bibi Haji Walks Into A Bar: How Afghan Men in the West Need to Grow Some Balls and Stop Fetishising Their Own Women (Post #9)
Afghan men in the West, stop being manipulated by the White man and Orientalising and fetishising your own people. How much longer are you gonna grovel at the feet of...
Guest Submission: To Say This Show is Not About The Military is False by Shiraz F (Post #8)
Once again, Afghans are being used as a way to better Americans. This falls into a pattern that is constantly reproduced in large and small ways: through characters in this...
Guest Submission: Mutual Liberation by Masuma Khan (Post #7)
My name is Masuma Khan. I was born in raised in Kjipuktuk Mi’kma’ki (Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada) and I’m a local community organizer and artist. I am a Pashtun, and...
Guest Submission: On "The United States of Al" by Professor Comrade (Post #6)
The United States is a murderous nation. This is the only reasonable starting point for any conversation about the American media's latest piece of naked propaganda, "The United States of...
Magical Nadeeda, and Why Misrepresentation Matters (Post #5)
For context, I just got finished with a procedure at the hospital, and my right arm is not functioning but I dragged myself to the god damn virtual screening and...
Why I want a husband from Afghanistan and not from the West (Post #4)
Disclaimer: Please forgive the terribly heterosexual/cis-gender nature of this post, I had to lean into one side of my bisexuality over the other to allow this synthesis. Afghan men are...
1995 Communist Immunisation Program That Worked (Post #3)
The transcription of a casual conversation about vaccines in Afghanistan with 'a historian of Central Asian history who has a graduate degree from GWU', as they describe themselves- a very...
Bunch o' Bullshit from the Bastards in Bureaucracy (Post #2)
When I turned in my dissertation at SOAS, the School of Oriental and African Studies, where I was receiving my Master's degree in Social Anthropology, in hopes to return to my...
An Open Letter to Charities in Afghanistan in "Defence" of Our Women (Post #1)
Everyone has been massively supportive about Blingistan, it’s made me blush, smile, laugh, and has filled my heart with such warmth- I wake up everyday loving what I do (and...