Youthfully Situating Gender: Afghanistan.

This semester I started writing opinions pieces for The Ram on topics I actually care about (and not about video games and partisan politics).  The first article I wrote was inspired by a NYT piece on the Afghan practice of dressing up young girls as boys for economic and social benefits.

Although butchering some of the philosophy I try to employ, in the article I voice my opinion about the abhorrence of this backward-minded process.

Read it all here: http://www.theramonline.com/opinions/afghans-cross-dress-children-for-prestige-1.2356784

On the left, Mehran, proudly dressed as a boy under the practice of "bacha posh."