Ten writers tell the struggles of women around the world

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Time.news – The letters of ten Italian writers to “meet and talk to women who are fighting for change in the world and who today are the protagonists of the struggle for life and freedom. Afghan, Yazidi, Iranian, Kurdish, African, South American, Indian, migrant women. Different and far from us, writes SIR in reporting, yet so close in their desire to change, to transform suffering into protagonism, marginalization into vital drive”.

The March issue of Donne Chiesa Mondo, the women’s monthly of L’Osservatore Romano, revolves around this. Letters which, the editorial reads, “somehow will reach even the most distant parts of the globe. The language of literature, like that of freedom, is universal. The voice of women, despite the fact that there is still a lot of oppression in the world, today it is strong, capable of crossing borders of all kinds. She demands to be listened to”. So Viola Ardone wrote to the Afghan woman from whom everything was taken away, even her face, but that she does not resign herself to being as men would like her: a thoughtless ghost, a life that does not lives.

Sotto l’hijab there are Iranian women who have the courage to demand their future in the streets and to whom she writes Silvia Avallone. Carola Susani is addressed to Kurdish women, the first to shout “Jin, Jiyan, Azadi”, “Women, life, freedom”. The words to the Yazidi women who brought down the “wall of distraction” of the West when the Islamic State attempted to destroy their people are Mariapia Veladiano’s words.

E di Dacia Maraini those aimed at African women caught between a backwardness that continues to punish them and a modernity that nevertheless denies them their rights. Nadia Terranova writes to girls born in times of war; Igiaba Scego to a Yanomani girl whose lands are invaded and robbed in the Amazon gold rush.

Elena Janezeck to invisible and excluded migrants. Maria Grazia Calandrone, on the other hand, lets an Indian girl speak who refused a marriage imposed by her family. And the men are also present with a letter addressed to them from Edith Bruck: “it is the weakness of men – he writes – that unleashes violence, rape, murder of those who leave you. Not love”.

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