“It’s my habit not to have fear”: An Interview with Bibi Jamila Sadat

In this interview, Afghan women’s rights activist Bibi Jamila Sadat chronicles her approaches to emancipatory politics and to her experience of fostering kinship networks. She weaves this into a biographical account that encompasses her university training in disaster management, her family’s multiple migrations from Afghanistan to Pakistan and back, and her work as a women’s rights activist. Throughout, Sadat emphasizes how various crises—from natural disasters to the everyday catastrophe of violent patriarchy—require close attention to women’s perspectives and plights, and how technological affordances can mitigate these. This interview ends with Sadat’s mediation of her current situation in exile and the continuation of her activist work.