Afghanistan12 min read
The teacher who reopened her school in secret
For three years she gathered girls in her living room. This is what she taught them.
An independent archive, est. 2024
She will not be
a footnote in
her own story.
detHERmination gathers the testimonies of women living through conflict , from Kyiv to Khartoum, from Kabul to Karabakh, and keeps them spoken aloud.
Issue N°01, Memory
Our purpose
We believe a war is not only fought with weapons. It is also fought with forgetting. detHERmination is a quiet act of remembrance, a place where women who have lived through conflict are not statistics, but authors of their own lives.
Featured stories
This week in the archive
Ukraine8 min read
A grandmother's photograph, carried across a border
When everything else was lost, one photograph remained. It became a map of memory.
Sudan15 min read
Writing by candlelight when the power was cut
A young journalist describes the nights she kept reporting in the dark.
In her words
"I am not the witness of history.
I am the one history forgot to ask."
Mariam, Aleppo · 2023
Portraits
A gallery of presence
Reading room
Books carried, books kept
A curated shelf of memoirs, war correspondence, poetry and oral history, written by women, or about them, from the regions we cover.
Visit the reading room →From the archive
"They tried to silence us. They forgot that silence, too, is a language."
"I learned that my mother's hands knew the war better than her words ever could."
"We are not the rubble. We are what grows after."
Your story matters here
If you carry a story
the world should hear,
we are listening.
Anonymous submissions welcome. Trauma-informed. Always free. Always yours to withdraw.
Begin your submissionIn partnership with
Reuters FoundationPEN InternationalMagnum FoundationInternational Women's Media FoundationUNESCOArticle 19Human Rights WatchPulitzer Center