OK so this is super awesome. A professional cyclist is helping support the women’s cycling team in Afghanistan…a country where bicycle riding by women is considered immoral.     For women in Afghanistan, riding a bicycle is taboo. What is considered appropriate behavior varies from one family and community to the next, but women riding bicycles is “generally considered immoral,” said Heather Barr, an Afghanistan researcher for Human Rights Watch. … To document the event, Galpin is taking five other women: a photographer, a writer, a social media manager and two filmmakers, who plan to make a short film about the women’s team titled “Afghan Cycles.” Despite having received death threats, many of the female cyclists are eager to speak publicly about the team, Galpin said.
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OK so this is super awesome. A professional cyclist is helping support the women’s cycling team in Afghanistan…a country where bicycle riding by women is considered immoral.    

For women in Afghanistan, riding a bicycle is taboo. What is considered appropriate behavior varies from one family and community to the next, but women riding bicycles is “generally considered immoral,” said Heather Barr, an Afghanistan researcher for Human Rights Watch.

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To document the event, Galpin is taking five other women: a photographer, a writer, a social media manager and two filmmakers, who plan to make a short film about the women’s team titled “Afghan Cycles.”

Despite having received death threats, many of the female cyclists are eager to speak publicly about the team, Galpin said.

Afghanistan's First Female Military Helicopter Pilot

It’s Women’s History Month! This week we are focusing on women in combat.

Latifa and her younger sister Laliuma were determined to become military pilots. Their father had just returned home from six years in jail after being accused of being a member of the Mujahadeen. He was thin and brittle from his time in prison. But as a former government official, he valued education. He wanted to see his daughters soar. 

The military wasn’t so welcoming. Latifa and her sister were refused entry. The army doctor told them they had heart and hearing problems, even though they didn’t.   

“They failed us on our medical examinations three times.”

The sisters passed a civilian doctor’s medical check and fought their way in as the first women admitted to the Afghan military flight school in 1989.”