We should be firing up support and solidarity with the people of Iran. Perhaps it is time to marry those two slogans, one from Iran, "We are no longer scared" to ours, "We will no longer be poor". The courage of the women of Iran surely inspires the desire to set about changing our society. They face a very brutal authoritarian regime, shackled to the blind dictate of religion. We cannot let their struggle be in vain.
Is it a feminist revolution
Is it a feminist revolution because they’re burning their hijab
Is it a feminist revolution because it was started and is led by women
Is it a feminist revolution if men are taking part
Is it a feminist revolution if nothing changes
What does hair have to do with the revolution
Glory and power to the women in Iran.If we’re lucky, women are semi-colons in the stories written by men and other egomaniacs and “revolutionaries” who think we don’t know that they don’t know what they’re doing; who think we don’t know that they just want some more of that power that the State monopolizes and not liberation for us all.
Glory and power to the women in Iran who have seized the narrative and become object and subject. Women are too often the afterthought of a revolution, rarely its reason for being.
Listen to their chants: Jin Jiyan Azadi/Women Life Liberty!
Glory and power to the women in Iran for serving us this challenge: If women (and men) in one of the most perfect police states are this unscared, then what are you doing to fight your oppressors?
The thing about revolutions is that you can never unsee them. You can never see people who are no longer scared rise up.
Their courage will set your very guts on fire. And put you on notice that you are next, whether you are an oppressor with a small o or a big-O Oppressor.
Glory and power to the women in Iran who have seized the narrative and become object and subject.
In too many revolutions women have died, been beaten, shot at, and sexually assaulted, fighting alongside men to rid their countries of that uppercase Patriarch yet so many lowercase patriarchs still oppress us.
We are no longer scared.
