My brain can’t comprehend how a monkey and a penguin get more attention than an actual human baby, starving in the middle of a genocide. People in Gaza deserve to live too. No child deserves to be starved to death or shot in the head.
Hamidreza Afrideh, a composer and kamancheh player, sits on the ruins of his music school and says:
"I wanted the last sound that remains here to be music, not bombs and missiles."
on this year's international women's day, we should all take the time to remember the names of these schoolgirls who were just trying to live their lives.
Women’s Day feels hollow when somewhere in the world a girl is helplessly crying for safety, dignity and the simple right to live while enduring war, genocide, displacement and unspeakable violence.