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14 days ago

Read the final essay of Prayer & Pretending by @SadiaFatimie on our website: https://t.co/2W0qGTRt8J

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2 months ago

Read the penultimate essay of Prayer & Pretending by @SadiaFatimie on our website: https://t.co/2W0qGTRt8J

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4 months ago

Read the full essay by @SadiaFatimie on our website: https://t.co/2W0qGTRt8J #Afghanistan #mentalhealth

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4 months ago

@heatherbarr1 This series of essays is one of the most powerful bodies of work to come out since the collapse. @SadiaFatimie articulates the invisible wounds of the last 20 years in Afghanistan with depth, and painful truth. You have to read them! https://t.co/6HBIDQt7Ca

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Shaharzad Akbar شهرزاد اکبر @ShaharzadAkbar

5 months ago

“Sometimes, it is quieter than that. It is: how long can a person keep carrying this?” @SadiaFatimie gives words to a kind of suffering people are forced to normalize. Clear. Necessary. Read this- her new essay is brilliant!

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5 months ago

I love reading these thoughtful, beautifully written essays by @SadiaFatimie and wait for them every week. Thank you @SadiaFatimie for bringing to words the many heavy experiences we carry.

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5 months ago

Read the full essay by @SadiaFatimie here: https://t.co/2W0qGTRt8J

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7 months ago

Read the full essay by @SadiaFatimie on our website: https://t.co/2W0qGTRt8J

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7 months ago

Read the full essay by @SadiaFatimie on our website: https://t.co/2W0qGTRt8J

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7 months ago

War didn’t end when the fighting slowed. It moved into families, into habits, into children who never saw it but still learned to fear. @SadiaFatimie ‘s new essay, The First Wound, gives language to what so many Afghans feel but rarely say. I’m obsessed with this series. Every Afghan should be reading this! ❤️🇦🇫💔

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7 months ago

Read the full essay by @SadiaFatimie on our website: https://t.co/2W0qGTS0Yh

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8 months ago

So much of our community carries generational trauma in silence. @SadiaFatimie puts it into words with honesty and grace. Read her essays. You’ll feel less alone. I still believe this series is one of the best things written since 2021.

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8 months ago

Read Essay 4: The Inheritance by @SadiaFatimie on our website: https://t.co/2W0qGTRt8J

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8 months ago

Read Essay 3: The Family Under Siege by @SadiaFatimie on our website: https://t.co/2W0qGTRt8J

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Wazhma Ayoubi 🇦🇫

@WazhmaAyoubi

8 months ago

“When survival becomes routine, fear does not disappear. It folds into daily decision-making.” @SadiaFatimie

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8 months ago

Find Essay 2: When a Society Adapts by @SadiaFatimie on our website: https://t.co/2W0qGTRt8J

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Emma Florez 🌷

@erinflorez01

8 months ago

People often ask why I care about Afghanistan. Some get suspicious, like there must be an agenda behind it. There isn’t. I study Afghan history and culture. I listen. I join spaces. I read perspectives — like the pieces written by @sadiafatimie, which articulate this far better than I ever could. Anyone who has spent time in war zones — veterans, contractors, aid workers, civilians — knows that war doesn’t end when you leave. I spent time in Iraq and Afghanistan, and later assisted during the 2021 Afghan withdrawal. Walking through that alongside Afghans reopened things that were never really gone— just lived quietly inside me, like a wanderer, a nomad without a tribe. For nearly five years, I’ve tried to understand by studying history, listening to stories, and sitting with people who have lived through decades of conflict. Over and over, I saw the same cycles: war, loss, resilience, survival, and deep, unspoken trauma. Somewhere along the way, I realized why this stayed with me. I recognized my own trauma reflected there. Not in ideology. Not in politics. But in shared human experience. Afghanistan became the place where pieces of my heart — left behind in war — were finally understood by walking beside Afghans, not speaking over them. That connection isn’t about identity or allegiance. It’s about empathy, memory, and solidarity with people who have carried far more than most of the world ever sees. That’s why I care. Nothing more. Nothing hidden. 🇺🇸❤️🇦🇫

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8 months ago

“You don’t brace once for something that keeps happening. You adjust your entire posture.” My brilliant sister, @SadiaFatimie ‘s new essay names what so many people lived through but never had words for: continuous threat, normalized danger, survival without relief. Read Living with the Smoke.

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