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Woman Life Freedom

Voices and Art from the Women's Protests in Iran

by Malu Halasa
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Mahsa Jina Amini's death at the hands of Iran's Morality Police on 16 September 2022 sparked widespread protests across the country. Women took to the streets, uncovering their hair, burning headscarves and chanting 'Woman, Life, Freedom' – 'Zan Zendegi Azadi' in Persian and 'Jin Jîyan Azadî' in Kurdish – in mass demonstrations. An explosion of creative resistance followed as art and photography shared online went viral and people around the world saw what was really going on in Iran. Woman Life Freedom captures this historic moment in artwork and first-person accounts. This striking collection goes behind-the-scenes at forbidden fashion shows; registers the sound of dissent in Iran, where it has been illegal for women to sing unaccompanied in public since 1979; and walks the streets of Tehran with 'The Smarties' – Gen Z women who colour and show their hair in defiance of the authorities, despite the potentially devastating consequences. Extolling the power of art, writing and body politics – both female and queer – this collection is both a universal rallying call and a celebration of the women the regime has tried and failed to silence. This is what protest looks like.

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    September 12, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9780863569777
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 18, 2023
      Halasa (Mother of All Pigs), literary editor of the Markaz Review, assembles searing essays, interviews, photos, and art inspired by the protests for women’s rights that spread through Iran starting in 2022. In September of that year, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was beaten to death by Iran’s Morality Police for allegedly violating a law that requires women to cover their hair, sparking protests across the country and engendering the rallying cry—”Woman, Life, Freedom”—for a protest movement. The collection begins with an anonymous letter that details Vida Movahed’s 2017 arrest after she climbed a utility box in Tehran and removed her hijab, which the author sees as one leg of a “sprint relay” toward greater equality. Later, journalist Niloofar Rasooli pays tribute in stark and unsparing prose to protestor Ghazaleh Chalabi, who was shot and killed while filming protests in northern Iran in September 2022. Rasooli adds that Chalabi, who chanted “do not be afraid” moments before her death, “is killed to be erased, to be stopped.... Her video, however, achieves the opposite.” Pulling together diverse voices from Iran and abroad, Halasa paints an affecting and sometimes painfully visceral picture of Iranian women’s fight for freedom. This leaves a mark.

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