Womankind

LETTERS FROM TIBET: Tsewang

Two years ago I went on a hunger strike in New Delhi, India. I didn’t tell anyone beforehand, not even my mother. She learned about it on the first day. I told her that I was doing it for Tibet and that if anything happened to me, she shouldn’t grieve. Moments later, I unplugged my phone and prepared my mind and body.

I was born

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