‘On Her Shoulders’ Presents the Political Pageantry of a Human Rights Activist

Nadia Murad has been through a lot. In 2014, she was kidnapped and held captive by the Islamic State. She was scarred and raped. She saw most of her family and hundreds of others in her village killed. She witnessed a genocide of her people, the Yazidis. She escaped and joined what’s left of her community as part of the global refugee crisis. In a way, …