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Afghan tradition allows girls to experience the freedom of boys

14th January, 2022 · admin

AP: In Afghanistan’s heavily patriarchal, male-dominated society, where women and girls are usually relegated to the home, bacha posh, Dari for “dressed as a boy,” is the one tradition allowing girls access to the freer male world. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Afghan Children, Afghan Women, Society, Taliban | Tags: bacha poshi, Life under Taliban rule |
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In rural Afghanistan this girl lives as a boy because her family never had a son

29th April, 2018 · admin

AFP: With five sisters and no brothers, Sitara lives by the gender-twisting custom known as “bacha poshi”, which in Dari refers to a girl “dressed as a boy”, enabling her to safely perform the duties of a son in the patriarchal country. The 18-year-old, who resides with her impoverished family in a mud-brick house in a

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Posted in Afghan Women, Economic News, Everyday Life | Tags: bacha poshi |

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