Performance Art
Abstract:
This performance gives voice to the invisible limits carried by Hazara women—limits placed not by choice, but by centuries of persecution, patriarchy, and genocide. It speaks to those denied the right to play, to learn, to love, to live freely. To be a Hazara girl is to grow up with curfews etched into the skin, dreams wrapped in fear, and beauty hidden behind silence. These limits are not visible to the naked eye, but they shape every breath, every step, every heartbeat.
On May 8, 2021, over 80 girls were killed in a bombing outside a school in Kabul—targeted simply for wanting an education. This act of violence was not the first, and it has not been the last. For Hazara women, freedom is an idea chased but rarely held. Each time they near it, the weight of societal, cultural, and historical oppression pulls them back—until even the door out feels like another wall.
This performance is not just an expression. It is a collective memory. A mourning. A resistance. A quiet scream from those who have been told, again and again, to suffocate silently. And yet, even in that suffocation, there is presence. There is breath. There is art.