Fighting for our gifts
- By Maleeha Babar When did people become numbers and bodies become commodities? When I look through my newsfeed, I see lists of deaths. Articles upon articles pile up my newsfeed, filling it with intoxicating death: spiritual death, emotional death, physical death and intellectual death. Rape is a cliché. But it's not. Until we recognize our humanity, however, it will be. Everywhere I go, I see our humanity denigrated to parts and pieces, to objects and commodities, to numbers and statistics. And yet no one says a word. We'll like and share and like and share pictures upon pictures of people being violated, slaughtered, used and abused, yet we won't stop to think: How are we a part of this? How are we engaging in this? And these are difficult…