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Oh the Places You Won’t Go

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The History of Women's Revolution and Feminism

There's a story I want to tell really quickly just so I don't forget to do it if you want to go back to picture seven. She was 16 years old when Isis took over the city that she lived in and one of the first rules they instituted for women is that all women had to wear the niqab which is the full black like full body covering. A member of the hisba which was Isis's religious police saw her and she was sentenced to 1500 lashes for wearing a white belt. It took her four months to recover from the whipping enough that she was able to escape through the lines and reach the Kurdish controlled chunks of Northern Syria. Her there under the tree with the

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