Snapshot · The Moth
Bushra Al-Fusail deliberately planned the Yemeni Women Bike campaign to coincide with a 3-day ceasefire between Yemeni rebels and the Saudi coalition — the only window of relative safety.
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Bushra begins her story at midnight: her bed shaking, a massive explosion, her father screaming her toward the basement. Within hours, she is scrolling Facebook to learn that Saudi coalition airstrikes have begun. For two weeks, she stays home. Then depression sets in and she fights her way back to work — buying fuel from the black market at $80–$100 a gallon, ten times the normal rate. On her drive in, she notices men on bicycles threading through the empty city. She feels something like joy — and then she looks to the other side and sees women standing in the blazing sun, fully covered, holding heavy bags, waiting for transportation that may never come. The contrast is unbearable. Biking isn't illegal in Yemen. It isn't against religion. But society has decided women cannot do it. Bushra creates a Facebook page — Yemeni Women Bike — just to see how people react. About 100 women sign up. And then a 3-day ceasefire is announced. She decides: if she is going to bike, it will be now.
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