Hopefully, the US identify that grows from this epidemiological disaster will give the US a new understanding of our shared vulnerability with the rest of the world. We will realize the need to restructure our own ethos of self-sufficiency and start valuing community over individualism, embeddedness over autonomy.

It seems from the Taliban’s statement that Afghan women will be allowed independence as long as they are dependent on a patriarchal structure fuelled by religious fundamentalism.