Across South Asia, women have long been told to stay silent. Across South Asia, women have been resisting and fighting back in different ways.
Elaha Soroor and Sadaf Saaz are two such powerful women who use music, writing, poetry and performance to reclaim that voice and resist patriarchy and authoritarianism.
Soroor, who’s an Afghan-Hazara singer, composer and activist, was born in Iran to refugee parents and rose to prominence on the Afghan TV talent show. She is now based in London, where she continues to create music that fuses Afghan folk traditions with feminist messages.
Saaz is a Bangladeshi poet, writer and performer who was born and raised in the UK before settling in Dhaka. There she became one of the country’s leading feminist literary voices through her poetry collection Sari Reams.
BFM talks to them about how they use their work to confront patriarchy, religious fundamentalism, censorship and more.
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Presented and produced by: Dashran Yohan/BFM
AGENDA RAKYAT - Lima perkara utama
- Tegakkan maruah serta kualiti kehidupan rakyat
- Galakkan pembangunan saksama, lestari serta tangani krisis alam sekitar
- Raikan kerencaman dan keterangkuman
- Selamatkan demokrasi dan angkatkan keluhuran undang-undang
- Lawan rasuah dan kronisme
