Last week, in solidarity with the brave Afghan women fighting for survival in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, I shared a photograph to my social media accounts of half my face, obscured by my hand, marked with the hashtag #standwithwomeninafghanistan.

In the days that followed, I got the slightest taste of the threats and misogyny Afghan women tell me they experience every day.

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