In our February opening of the exhibition of Making Marks: Australia and Afghanistan, I met an Afghan woman, T, who is a permanent resident in Australia. I approached T a few days ago to ask if there are women she's in touch with in Afghanistan who would want me to publish their perspectives on this blog. Through T, I received this audio recording from M who is a social worker and women's rights advocate.
"All women in Afghanistan are very sad and disappointed. Most of women deactivated their social media and removed their photos from their profiles. They are very afraid of the dark and unknown future. They lost everything that we tried for them for 20 years. There is no girls and women in the streets. How, how we can say to our daughters, after this, you can not go to school?"