Malala Yousafzai

“We felt like the Taliban saw us as like little dolls to control, telling us what to do and how to dress. I thought if God wanted us to be like that He would not have made us all different.” ― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. October 8, 2013.

transcript: https://amara.org/videos/ywQDmibRdFiB/en/577415/

Context: October 10, 2013 (maybe aired a day or few earlier?)

I think that the people of America, the United States,
13:10 - 13:17 uh- they truly support uh- peace, and they say that, "We must not fight against war, through war. "
13:17 - 13:22 They believe that dialogue is the best way. And we must try to find a solution for it!
13:22 - 13:27 And in my opinion, the solution that would work, to fight all these wars,
13:27 - 13:31 and all these problems that people are facing, is only education.
13:31 - 13:38 Because you can- you can stop war for a second, but you don't know- it will start again or not.
13:38 - 13:42 We have seen first world war, we have seen second world war, and I think third world war is coming.
13:42 - 13:50 But I believe that we must stop it now. I don't want to see a third world war in- in this world again.
13:50 - 13:55 And the best way to fight against this war is education because- as we can see,
13:55 - 14:00 the children are suffering from terrorism, they are suffering from child labor and child trafficking.
14:00 - 14:03 They're also suffering from the culture norms and traditions.
14:03 - 14:08 These are- there is not only one issue that we are facing through, there are many others as well.
14:08 - 14:12 So I think, education is the best way. People will be thinking,

Malala Yousafzai has spoken in defence of Joyland, a film about trans love that has been banned in Punjab.

Joyland was to be banned across Pakistan after the government rescinded the film’s censorship certification.

A statement from the Information and Broadcasting Ministry wrote that the decision came after written complaints of “highly objectionable material” which went against “decency and morality”.

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Malala Yousafzai wrote in defence of the film, directed by Saim Sadiq. She is an executive producer on the project.

“When a film like Sadiq’s raises up working class or trans characters, and women struggling to assert themselves against rigid and very real social norms, we turn away,” she wrote in Variety.

“In doing so, we reject the spectacular talent of Pakistani artists that a film like Joyland represents.

“So many of our best and brightest — from Kumail Nanjiani to Kamila Shamsie to Shahzia Sikander — have found more success in Europe or the US.

“What message are we sending to the next generation who, like Sadiq, want to make films in Karachi or Swat Valley, when we ban art by our own people?”.

The film, starring transgender actress Alina Khan who plays Biba, a trans starlet, was the first Pakistani film to be selected for Cannes Film Festival.