How different my own activism would be if every time something happened, I asked myself, "What would I do if this was my family?

—Bushra Rehman

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About Bushra Rehman

Bushra Rehman is a Pakistani-American novelist best known for her Lambda Literary Award-nominated novel Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion and short story Corona.

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How different my own activism would be if every time something happened, I asked myself, "What would I do if this was my family?