“Watching how people who look kind of like me get together – the men, the women – out in the streets dying just to make it safer for the generation that comes after them. Their daughters, their sisters, their moms. It’s a big thing,” Su said.
surges on, making it hard for those outside the country to know what's going on."They're all protesting the death of Mahsa," Su says in the video."I'm tired that this is something happening in 2022. ... These women are just human beings. There are girls our age who are in their early 20s who are worried about staying alive.
To help remove her sister and mother from the household, Su wrote a letter to the abusive family member on their behalf, requesting that they move from their birthplace and home in Bangladesh to India to seek better education. She succeeded in this, but misogyny followed. "The discrimination I faced in both Bangladesh and India [for] being a girl was very difficult and it was constantly brought up," Su said."It was very obvious that that was something I'd have to deal with for the rest of my life."
"As I think about my grief and the things I've experienced in my life, I think, 'Wow, I escaped.' I was able to use my words and connections to escape and get out of those situations, [but] there are still people suffering to make it one more day. For them, it doesn't end. For them it just keeps going," Su said.
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