"As a storyteller, I have realized that women grow up carrying the burden of being women, of being told they are an inferior being. There is direct or indirect violence that always weighs heavily on women, which intersects with the challenges of being from a specific caste, ethnicity, or background.
When women sit together, we talk about how we have gone through violence in different phases of our life. For women, it is a lifetime of carrying that experience, and we are still shut down or told off or gaslighted for the pain we carry.
Our stories become trivial because we are forced to believe that there are broader issues that need to be tackled.
We don't talk enough about our struggles and experiences. We only heal when we get to tell our stories."
Subina Shrestha is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker from Nepal. Subina has steered major news coverage, often as the only international broadcast journalist on the scene; and told stories of people whose lives have been affected by natural and human-made disasters.
...UN Women
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