Embrace women’s diversity

The experiences of women of historically marginalised groups aren’t discussed.

For the past few years, officials have been correcting me whenever I state my name. "How can you continue using your last name Yonjan after getting married to a Thokar?" they say. "Now you are also a Thokar." I am neither astonished nor enraged by such statements because I am not the first woman in my family to go through this. These incidents happened to my mother too because she continued to use her own surname, Moktan, rather than her husband's.