The Underground Girls Of Kabul

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Why Afghanistan's 'Underground Girls' Skirt Tradition To Live As Boys

Bacha posh are girls who live as boys in a society that grieves when a daughter is born instead of a son.

"I think it's a story about oppression, and I think that's a universal story. This is something that women and girls have done throughout our own history. There were women who joined the Civil War here as men because women were not allowed to get an education, to become doctors. It's a story of passing, and how to buck the system in an impossible society."

In Search Of A Hidden Resistance In Afghanistan
by JENNY NORDBERG