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We Are Here: Writings by Afghan Women • September 2025 • MBAfghan

We Are Here is Matchbox's most urgent issue — a collective act of witness by Afghan women writers, artists, and thinkers responding to the Taliban's…
We Are Here is Matchbox’s most urgent issue — a collective act of witness by Afghan women writers, artists, and thinkers responding to the Taliban’s erasure of women from public life. Fiction, poetry, interviews, visual art, and non-fiction from inside and outside Afghanistan speak to resilience, exile, agency, and the unbroken determination to be heard. These are women who write under impossible conditions — and write anyway.
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Over Coffee

Feminist commentary — on books, culture & current events

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Cassandra

Reflections on international women writers and activists

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