A Letter to Feminists
Is your feminism truly inclusive? Or does it stop at the border?
In this blistering, unapologetic manifesto, Nate Haliv shatters the comfortable glass ceiling of Western feminism to reveal the basement where the world's most vulnerable women are fighting just to survive.
We march for equal pay and boardroom diversity. We memorize the works of Betty Friedan and Judith Butler. We post the black squares and wear the protest armbands. But why does our outrage vanish when the victims are African?
The Silence: Why do we boycott fashion brands for using fur, yet remain silent about the 7-year-old Congolese girls mining cobalt for our smartphones in toxic pits?
The Erasure: Why are African heroines who led armies against empires deleted from our history books, replaced by narratives of "hair politics" and "accents"?
The Reality: Why do we canonize the "problem with no name" while millions of girls face the very real, life-or-death epidemic of Female Genital Mutilation?
"My problems are our problems. But your problems? Those are just yours."
But this is more than just a critique. It is a journey into the heart of darkness. Through the harrowing, fictionalized story of Aisha Adichie, Haliv exposes the terrifying reality of the "migrant dream."
Driven by the crushing weight of poverty and the seductive promise of a European paradise, Aisha places her life in the hands of a "sponsor." What follows is a descent into a modern-day hell: the invisible graveyards of the Sahara Desert, the slave markets of Libya, and the psychological prison of "Juju" oaths that bind women to sex trafficking rings in Italy.
A Letter to Feminists is a wake-up call written in ink, but inspired by stories written in blood. It challenges you to look beyond the hashtag and confront the "Greener Pastures" for what they often are: a mirage built on the suffering of the innocent.
Read it. Get angry. And then, pick a side.
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