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The next day we sat in circles together with woman and girls who were part of Apne Aap, our host NGO in India. Apne Aap organizes women and girls in small circles of 10, where they come together to support one another, make change for themselves and the next generation. The power of these groups coming together and then joining with other circles in regional and national advocacy: it is the power of the last women and the last girls.
How can we build on the individual, organizational, and policy work we accomplished with Sunita to further movement building? How does this work support the collective power of those most impacted by the problem to be at the center of our strategies, policies, and solutions?
For many of us in the Move to End Violence cohort, and for many in the margins of the movement to end violence against women in the US, the concept of the last girl resonates deeply. We understand the importance of working with the last girl. By working with girls facing the most challenging situations at the intersections of so many vulnerabilities, we are building creative strategies and change for every girl.
Can we make the pivot to dedicate and measure our efforts to their meaning and success for the last girls in our communities? Can we advocate for the larger movement to end violence against women and girls in the US to make the pivot with us?
We are already on our way. We have had the opportunity to see the power of the last girls and last women in India. We see this in the work of cohort members like Joanne at Girls for Gender Equity, Aimee at Close to Home, Corinne at Tewa Women United, Priscilla at Domestic Workers United, and many more.
I feel hopeful and grateful to join with Apne Aap, MEV cohort members, and each one of you who are reading this now to be part of this pivot, this great turning in our movement to end violence against women and girls. Because when we shift our purpose to every last girl, we create the hope and the future for every last one of us.
Ah, I almost requested this being a fan of dystopian but something held me back. The conceot is promising but the issues you mentioned in regards to lack of full clarification and why the harsh treatment of the girls, has me thinking this will not be my cup of tea. Appreciate the insight! Fabulous review ??
Thanks Danielle ? It was a shame this one came up short, but since dystopian has been so hot for the past 10 years, you really need to knock my socks off at this point. Ugh the girl hate is a HUGE issue for me. Thankfully we are seeing less and less, and more and more of positive female relationships!
The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State is an autobiographical book by Nadia Murad in which she describes how she was captured and enslaved by the Islamic State during the Second Iraqi Civil War. The book eventually led to the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to Murad.
Part I details Murad growing up in the Yazidi village of Kocho, Sinjar District, with her mother, two older sisters and eight older brothers. Murad outlines the fallout of several incidents and disputes related to nearby Sunni villages and terrorist attacks she remembered. She then describes the August 2014 occupation of Kocho by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and the subsequent Kocho massacre perpetrated by ISIS. Some had escaped to the Sinjar Mountains, and the rest were kidnapped by ISIS. Men still in Kocho refused to convert and were killed, and young women were taken as sexual slaves. Murad criticized Peshmerga troops for escaping Kocho a day before the massacre.
In Part II, Murad recounts her and surrounding experiences during the Second Iraqi Civil War. Along with other women, she was transported to an institute in Solagh. She was then taken to Mosul, which had been captured by ISIS in June 2014. Yazidi women who weren't enslaved were assaulted indiscriminately. A high-ranking militant wanted to buy Murad, but she convinced a skinnier judge instead. When Murad was in Al-Hamdaniya District, she unsuccessfully attempted to escape through a window. She was subsequently raped by the guards and relocated to an ISIS checkpoint. She was imprisoned there and raped by people passing, until she was bought by someone in Mosul again. There, she successfully and easily escaped her captor, who had left the front door unlocked, and described the circumstances as miraculous.
Murad narrates her escape of ISIS-held territory in Part III of the book. After wandering Mosul for almost two hours, she approached a family for help. An escape was arranged, and, using fake identities, Murad escaped with the younger son, who the family worried would join ISIS. They successfully entered Iraqi Kurdistan, but kept their fake identities so that Murad's status as a former slave would not be politically exploited. After being unable to leave Sulaymaniyah, Murad decided to tell her story to the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. The PUK leaked the interview, and the family who helped Murad was compromised in Mosul. Murad reunited with some of her family's members, and was waiting to learn about the rest. Her mother had been killed in Solagh, and Nadia's niece Kathrine, who had previously been turned in six times when she tried to escape, was killed in an explosive device blast which also injured Lamiya Aji Bashar. Six of Murad's brothers had been killed, and a nephew of hers had become an ISIS soldier.
Writing for The Washington Post, Alia Malek stated that Murad "writes with understandable anger but also with love, flashes of humor and dignity".[5] Ian Birrell wrote for The Times that Jenna Krajeski, the American journalist who co-authored the book, "captures Murad's tremulous voice well".[6]
Anna Della Subin of The New York Times praised the book as a primer on Yazidi religious beliefs.[7] Ashutosh Bhardwaj wrote for the Indian newspaper The Financial Express that Murad's book "vividly details the customs and life of Yazidism" and that she "cites instances how the Yazidi stories were misinterpreted by the Sunnis who termed them 'devil worshippers'".[8]
Critics focused on the fact that the Iraq conflict was still ongoing at the moment the book was published. Subin wrote that the book is "difficult to process", that it contains "open wounds and painful lessons", and that it can be "co-opted for any number of political agendas". Subin also wrote that "it places Murad's tragedy in the larger narrative of Iraqi history and American intervention". According to Subin, the book is "intricate in historical context" to avoid being manipulated by sensationalism and Islamophobia.[7] Malek had "[no] doubt [that] controlling her story was part of [Murad's] motivation to tell it in this book". However, Malek opined that Murad harshly criticized Sunni Arabs for not standing up to ISIS and classified others as exceptions to the rule.[5]
In her autobiography, activist and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Nadia seizes and wields her own story to elevate the voice of Yazidis, capturing their history, culture, and the genocide they endured at the hands of ISIS. She recalls the atrocities Yazidis endured, from the massacre to the systematic sexual enslavement of thousands, in a call for justice.
Told in three parts, Nadia begins her autobiography in Kocho, where she grew up and had imagined the setting for the rest of her life. Located in Sinjar in northern Iraq, Kocho was one of a number of Yazidi villages where people formed peaceful, close-knit communities. She recalls her large, loving family, who at time struggled to make ends meet, especially in the aftermath of her father leaving her mother and his later death. As a religious minority, the Yazidis lived under the constant threat of persecution in 2014, their fears were realized as death descended upon Kocho.
The second part of The Last Girl bares the details of how ISIS rounded up her village, divided them by sex, killed the men, then used rape as a weapon of war against the women and girls. As a sabiyya (sex slave, plural sabaya), Nadia was repeatedly sold, traded, and raped by members of ISIS. Her story, she points out, was not unique in this. Thousands of other Yazidi women and girls continue to endure the same, forced to convert as cruel men try to break their spirits. Loneliness and the complicity of the people in Mosul and other ISIS-occupied areas drove Nadia to hopelessness.
Nadia weaves in the history and politics of Iraq and the wars it has weathered. Among the events leading up to the invasion of Kocho, what effect did the actions of peshmerga (Kurdish military forces), American military, and surrounding communities have on what happened to the Yazidis?
At the home of Morteja, Nadia internally condemns his mother for her part (and the role of other women) in supporting ISIS. What are ways that women can prop up misogynist structures? What is the price of propping these up and who pays it?
RAISED AMONG THEM. Li has a father and a sister who love her. A best friend, Mirabae, to share things with. She goes to school and hangs out at the beach and carefully follows the rules. She has to. Everyone she knows--her family, her teachers, her friends--is an alien. And she is the only human left on Earth.
A SECRET THAT COULD END HER LIFE. The Abdoloreans hijacked the planet sixteen years ago, destroying all human life. Li's human-sympathizer father took her in as a baby and has trained her to pass as one of them. The Abdoloreans appear human. But they don't think with human minds or feel with human hearts. And they have special abilities no human could ever have.
FIT IN OR DIE. When Li meets Ryn, she's swept up in a relationship that could have disastrous consequences. How far will Li go to stay alive? Will she save herself--and in turn, the human race--or will she be the final witness to humanity's destruction?
Bottom Line: Cool premise that could have gone a lot differently with a more sophisticated world-building and consistent character traits. And also less-insta love, because who likes that?
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