Pakistan


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Male survivors are getting left behind. It is time we talk about them.

Saira Mahmood
Lead actors of a Pakistani show Muhabbat Subh ka Sitara standing in a line.

Why are all the women in Pakistani shows submissive?

Shajia Abidi
Collage of 4 images: top left - A photo of two Herero women, top right - gray scale image of a woman where you can see her spine, Bottom left - Three Sri Lankan Tamil women are stood side by side, Bottom Right - Jeffrey Epstein close up.

Best of The Tempest 2019: Social Justice & News

Mitta Thakrar

Via Alexas Fotos

Pakistan’s band-aid solutions for child abuse are no longer enough

Shehrbano Naqvi
Rabi Pirzada and Qandeel Baloch

The pseudo power of Islam and societal policing in Pakistan

Shehrbano Naqvi
Ali Zafar and Imran Khan

Pakistani men have weaponized #MeToo against the same women it should be helping

Shehrbano Naqvi

Pakistani Novelist Aysha Baqir

In conversation with Aysha Baqir on her novel Beyond the Fields

Shehrbano Naqvi

Pakistan’s patriarchal double standards spare no one—not even Kate Middleton

Izza Malik
The cover of the book "The Nightingale" on the left, and an up-close image of the author - a white, blonde woman - on the right.

“The Nightingale” shows us that war heroes aren’t always men

Izza Malik

What it’s really like to be a strong woman stuck in a bad marriage

Yusra Hussain
[image description: a group of soldiers face away from the camera as they crowd around an old man.] via Human Rights Watch (https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/08/06/india-basic-freedoms-risk-kashmir)

Everything inside the latest crisis in Kashmir, explained

Saira Mahmood
A diverse group of women of all sizes stand together. They are smiling.

Plus-size fashion should not mean minus the love

Sahar Arshad