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#OutlookMagazine Anniversary Issue | Women of Gaza are holding on, but for how long-
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1/9/2024
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I am Pragya and I bring to you excerpts from the ear-ender issue titled "We Bear Witness".
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The issue is dedicated to the people of Gaza and what they went through.
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Women of Gaza are holding on, but for how long?
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Farah Barkavi, as told to Rakibos of Outlook.
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What is happening in Gaza now is a backward step in every way for the feminist movement,
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says Farah Barkavi, a Palestinian feminist, performer and poet, pursuing an MFA degree
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in non-fiction creative writing in Brooklyn.
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I was a teenager in Gaza 20 years ago and I remember an incident when I was having a
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heavy period day.
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I was at a bus stand at the Rafah crossing, which had white plastic seats.
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Despite wearing a sanitary napkin, I overflowed and stained the seat.
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An older woman called out to me and pointed at the blood.
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I am a feminist and raised well by my feminist mother and know there is no shame in menstruating.
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And yet I remember how stigmatizing that moment was for me.
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Today, sitting in Brooklyn, United States, watching my city get reduced to rubble, I
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keep thinking about that day at the bus stop and I wonder what the menstruating women must
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be going through at the moment in Gaza, which has been under Israel's siege for nearly
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three months.
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I can feel the shame and humiliation they must be feeling.
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Many of these young girls and women just carried a backpack when they left their homes.
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How much could they even carry in that backpack?
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It's not surprising to hear that in Gaza, the demand for pills to block menstruation
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and contraception has gone up since this invasion.
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Women do not want to menstruate as there is no water or pads.
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As a poet writing about Gaza, the border, my mother and the ulfa, this assault has been
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really overwhelming for me because my mother, Zainab Al-Gonaymi, is now in Gaza City.
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A feminist organizer and human rights defender herself, she's been there since the start,
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surviving Israeli artillery, bombs and white phosphorus.
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She co-founded a shelter for women survivors of domestic violence and abuse.
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Despite the immense bombing and fighting, the shelter is still up and running and is
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currently hosting refugees, women and children.
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My mother had initially remained in her apartment in Gaza City.
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Amid all the conflict, she has to survive herself and also manage the shelter.
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I don't know when or if I will be able to see her again.
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