Feminist Revolution in Iran (Part 6): Audience Q&A

Part 6 of 6

This video is an excerpt from the event, “Feminist Revolution in Iran: Reflections on Year
One, ” recorded on September 23, 2023
at Barnard College. This video features audience questions and comments. Additional videos from this event are available on Feminists
for Jina - NYC’s social media and at:

https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/femini...

Co-organized by Feminists for Jina-NYC and
co-sponsored by The Department of Women, Gender,
and Sexuality Studies, Barnard College.


Event description:
Feminists for Jina-NYC invites you to an evening of reflection on the first year of an unfolding feminist revolution in Iran. Triggered by the September 16, 2022 murder in police custody of a young Iranian Kurdish woman, Jina (Mahsa) Amini, a multiethnic uprising led by young women and girls quickly swept across Iran, gaining widespread support from many men. For the first time, explicitly feminist demands for women’s bodily autonomy from the state and for gender and sexual equality in all aspects of life was at the center of a movement that called for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic. Marginalized ethnic and religious populations, as well as queer and trans Iranians, have been at the forefront of this uprising. The Iranian state has responded with tremendous brutality, killing hundreds of protesters in the streets, arresting thousands, torturing prisoners, and carrying out official executions. Yet, the protests, reflecting broader social and cultural transformations, continue in different forms, including in daily acts of mass civil disobedience in which women refuse to wear mandatory hijab.

Please join us for a wide-ranging discussion with Bahareh Badiei, Kiana Karimi, N. of the Begoo Collective, and Fatemeh Shams, moderated by Manijeh Moradian. These activists, scholars and artists have been involved in building transnational feminist solidarity and who will talk about the impact of the women, life, freedom (jin, jiyan, azadi) movement on Iranian society, on the Iranian diaspora, and on their own lives.