Afghanistan 15 January, 2023
We announce our uprising as an uprising against all backward, despotic and dogmatic misogynistic powers and forces of the Middle East, from the Islamic Republic’s fascist forces to Taliban terrorists.
Global Call to Action – November 25, 2022
On November 25th, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women we come together in the streets with all other freedom fighters to be a united voice of resistance to all forms of gender-based violence and all forms of oppression. Our solidarity will bring “No one is free until we are all free” into reality.
Statement 25 November, 2022
We believe in the connection between histories of feminist struggles. We know the struggle didn’t begin today, and we are standing on the shoulders of many big and small movements of the past.
State Femicide by I.R.
These short texts are narrating the story of some of the women who were killed by the Islamic Republic.
Women Weaving the Future Conference – November 2022
Hundreds of feminist activists and researchers from different parts of the world participated in this conference. On the right side of the main hall of the conference hung a large picture of Jina Amini, and on the other side, a picture of Nagihan Akarsel, a Kurdish feminist who was murdered in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq.
Feminist Day of Action – October 2nd, 2022
Jina’s name became a sign, a sign to outcry: “Woman, Life, Freedom”. Jina’s body is a living wound of entangled discriminations, a wound on my body, on ours. An open wound on the body of the street.
Rally Manifesto October 2, 2022
We are a group of feminists and LGBTQIA+ individuals in diaspora and exile, hand in hand with our international feminist allies, who have come to the streets, all over the world, in solidarity with the people’s uprising in Iran, especially the radical movement of women that challenges the oppressive, patriarchal, capitalist and religious fundamentalist regime.
A Brief History of Jin Jiyan Azadi
“Jin-Jîyan-Azadî,” was chanted again and again during Jina’s burial ceremony in her hometown Saqqez, in Sanandaj the next day, and almost immediately, it spread across other streets of Iran as the main slogan.
History of Protest Against Compulsory Hijab in Iran
After the 1979 revolution in Iran, Khomeini ordered the repeal of the Family Protection Law as the first step to creating an Islamic state, accompanied by the whispers of compulsory hijab, and they clicked the first war on women and LGBTQIA+ people in Iran. On the 8th of March 1979, women organized massive demonstrations in […]