Listen to the voices of Afghan women

I have spent years writing about Afghan women leading the push to make women’s voices heard. Girls learning coding, women starting businesses, girls dreaming of becoming engineers, lawyers and teachers. Their stories, so full of strength and hope, now are in danger of being crushed by the Taliban, as so many were when the Taliban last ruled. The messages I have received in recent days have been heart-wrenching. Here is a sampling — the women’s identities have been withheld because of the danger they now feel as stories of Taliban violence against girls and women emerge.