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    Feminist Dissent

    We Sinful Women
    Kishwar Naheed*
    Translated by Rukhsana Ahmed
    Address
    *Correspondence: [kishwarnaheed72@yahoo.com]

    Kishwar Naheed (b. 1940) is one of Pakistan’s leading poets, a feminist,


    and activist in the women’s movement. Below is her well-known poem,
    translated from the original in Urdu.

    It is we sinful women
    who are not awed by the grandeur of those who wear gowns

    who don’t sell our lives


    who don’t bow our heads
    who don’t fold our hands together.
    © Copyright: The
    Authors. This article is
    It is we sinful women
    issued under the terms of
    the Creative Commons while those who sell the harvests of our bodies
    Attribution Non-
    Commercial Share Alike become exalted
    License, which permits
    use and redistribution of become distinguished
    the work provided that
    the original author and become the just princes of the material world.
    source are credited, the
    work is not used for
    commercial purposes and It is we sinful women
    that any derivative works
    are made available under who come out raising the banner of truth
    the same license terms.
    up against barricades of lies on the highways
    who find stories of persecution piled on each threshold
    who find that tongues which could speak have been severed.

    Naheed. Feminist Dissent 2018 (3), pp. 192-193 192


    Feminist Dissent

    It is we sinful women.
    Now, even if the night gives chase
    these eyes shall not be put out.
    For the wall which has been razed
    don’t insist now on raising it again.

    It is we sinful women
    who are not awed by the grandeur of those who wear gowns

    who don’t sell our bodies


    who don’t bow our heads
    who don’t fold our hands together.

    Available at: https://urduwallahs.wordpress.com/2016/09/03/we-sinful-


    women/

    To cite this article:

    Naheed, K. (2018). We Sinful Women. Feminist Dissent, (3), 192-193.


    Retrieved from:
    https://journals.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/feministdissent/index

    Naheed. Feminist Dissent 2018 (3), pp. 192-193 193

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