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“We are all caught in a three-dimensional matrix, under forces that push us in different directions depending on the context we’re in at any given moment,” writes Khan in “Re/calibrating” their quilted memoir of surviving family, country, medical school, and professional community.

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In their “portrait of an analyst as a young man,” Murad Khan shows us how, from an early age, they also had to learn how to recognize and thread a needle through precarious forces. We will publish it in English and Dari so that other Afghan girls might find strength and hope through these words that they might be heard-that they will be recognized. Of course we will publish it, we told her.

But because she wasn’t sure the UN would read a letter written by a twenty-year-old college student sent on behalf of all the Afghan girls whose lives have been shattered, Shahbaz sent it to ROOM, hoping we might publish it, hoping it might find its way to the UN. We expected you to not be just a viewer,” Shegofa Shahbaz wrote to the UN. “It has been almost two years since we were waiting for you to take action. Like Shegofa, the authors of ROOM 10.23 are hoping against hope that their words, which are so particular to their separate histories and psychologies, might be heard, might have an impact. We never know, from issue to issue, what will rise to the surface of our collective consciousness. In keeping with our belief that lasting change can only happen from the ground up, we open our doors and wait for readers to write. It was conceived as a psychoanalytically informed community platform following the 2016 US election. Nor could we have imagined that within weeks the IPA UN subcommittee would invite Shegofa to speak to them, register a formal human rights complaint on her behalf, and work actively to find other platforms to amplify her voice. None of us, and perhaps least of all Shegofa, ever imagined that her “Letter to the UN” (which had been rejected by at least four different magazines and newspapers before we published it) could have had such reach. Layne Gregory is one of the founders of the Asian University for Women’s program Writing for Friendship. I could only tell him about it,” Layne Gregory wrote to me, correcting a rumor that had been buzzing about. “It turns out that when you meet the president of the United States, you are not allowed to have anything in your hands or your pockets, so the fact is I couldn’t show President Biden Shegofa Shabazz’s ‘Letter to the UN’ published in ROOM 6.23.

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