An ideal bridge of rights, courage and trampled dignity, connecting the 21 women who wrote the Italian Constitution to the refugees fleeing the Taliban regime. This is the beating heart of “Women. Resistance. Freedom.”, the latest literary effort by the journalist and writer Angela Iantosca.
A bond beyond time and space
The book stems from a profound intuition: to juxtapose the biographies of the Italian Constituent Mothers to 21 stories of Afghan women encountered by the author through the work of Nine Caring Humans, the NGO that has been supporting the female population in Kabul and Italy for years.
«It is a book I deeply love,» explains Iantosca, emphasising that the work is not just a chronicle of the fall of Kabul on 15 August 2021, but an intimate analysis of loss and rebirth. In the pages, the voices of female journalists, teachers, doctors and midwives alternate, who in an instant have seen their careers and freedom crumble to dust, finding themselves forced to start from scratch in a foreign country.
Against the stigma of reception
The author's aim is twofold: to give a voice to those who have been silenced by obscurantism and to break down the prejudices that often surround the figure of the refugee. The book explores the struggle of integration, the obstacle of language and the need to be looked at not as “worrying foreigners”, but as people who are bearers of immense value.
“In the words of the Afghan women, I found the same thirst for democracy that drove our constituents. It is an incredible connection that I felt compelled to tell.”
A commitment that becomes a gift
The collaboration with Nine Caring Humans does not end between the lines of the book. Consistent with the message of solidarity expressed in the work, Angela Iantosca announced her decision to devolve part of the proceeds from the author's rights to the NGO in order to concretely support the paths of integration of Afghan women on Italian soil.
