Samira Yama was sweating under a blue burqa as she stood in the long queue to cross the border from Afghanistan into Pakistan. It was October 2021, and for the first time in her life the 28-year-old Afghan fashion designer and feminist had been forced to cover her face and body.
"I was very angry, I was very uncomfortable, it's heavy and it's hot. You can't see to the side, so when you cross the street it's very dangerous," she told ABC RN'S Blueprint for Living.
