you will bring life into this world, only to lose yours. Because you’re a girl you will suffer mutilation to bleed and scream for a month. Because you’re a girl you will be brought to a river               to drown since you weren’t born a boy. Because you’re a girl who loves the smell of…

In Memoriam Reyhaneh Jabbari (i) Letter at night My kind mother, the world allowed me to live for 19 years, to play as a child, to explore as a teen then, it asked me to hand over my life to die at the hands of a man, to give up my body to be used…