As an Afghan girl, I welcome each sunrise not knowing whether I will see sunset on that day. Every time I hear that the Taliban have arrested women for reasons such as “not wearing the hijab” or “insubordination,” my heart aches. Hundreds of thousands of women in Afghanistan today are experiencing this anxiety and repression. When a woman loses her right to control over her own body, the echo of this defeat also reaches Afghanistan, Iran, Palestine, Syria . The history of women’s struggles has shown that fascism and authoritarianism can only grow when silence and complicity take over.