News of September
While Texas has passed the most restrictive abortion law in the US, which closes the window of time women have to decide whether to terminate the pregnancy at just six weeks, in Afghanistan the Taliban break one by one the promises they had made (which only in bad faith could one believe).
Not only will Afghan women not be able to join the government but “for the moment for security reasons” they will no longer be able to study or work.
In this way we want to ignite every sprout of individuality, every desire, every ambition, in the name of a single duty: to have children and build future soldiers.
Afghanistan comes down – even music is forbidden – but women are not there, and the days to demonstrate in the squares and streets, or to give life to a thousand different forms of protest and resistance from the houses in which they are now imprisoned.
They are echoed and sounding by the sisters for the world, which is keen to keep the attention alive so that all this is not accepted, normalized and eventually forgotten.
Lunàdigas joins the fight alongside all these women, with the strength of the testimonies of the Living Archive, a composite mosaic of women’s faces and voices, each to be listened to with attention and care.
The protagonists of this month are Cinzia, Fedora and Elisabetta, three women with three very different approaches to motherhood and non-motherhood. Those who desired motherhood but could not achieve it, those who let life choose and those who gave up because their idea of motherhood has not found space in reality, all have one – but strong – point in common: never mothers of course, never mothers at any cost.
News also in the Stories section, with two articles by Claudia Mazzilli, in which the central theme is abortion: the review of the ruthless novel by Merritt Tierse, Carne Viva, and a focus on abortion at the time of Covid and on the work of activist Rebecca Gomperts, who for years has been involved in ensuring access to a safe abortion for many women who live in countries where the voluntary termination of pregnancy is subject to prohibition or heavy prices.
