“I was sentenced to 99 lashes just for shaking hands with the opposite sex. … In another instance, when I sent my book to get permission to be published, they censored some of my words. As a woman, if I imagine or write about a romantic connection between two people, it’s censored.”
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If I love Nicaragua, I must criticize Nicaragua — Nicaragua, as a society, as a government — because I care about it. … No healthy patriotism comes from the notion that the things you love are above critique. Where there is injustice, oppression, flawed systems within your society, country, government, religion, family, we must speak out.
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This is the first of two segments featuring Marcia Tiburi. The following interview is an introduction to her life as a writer, scholar, and activist. For the second segment, read the English-translated excerpt of her philosophical treatise […]
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An excerpt from Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo’s essay “The Cuban Revolution as a Dream of the Diaspora” explores the brilliance, magic, and heartbreak in the dreams of exiled writers.
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“Women Making Herstory” accounts for immigrant women’s contributions to the cultural heritage to Malmö, Sweden through interviews with women.
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In Egypt, two journalists have been sentenced to death and a prominent TV host was deported from the country.
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An interview with Iranian writer and women’s rights activist Fariba Hachtroudi.
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