By Hasse-Nima Golkar The Kurdish slogan “Jin, Jiyan, Azadî” (in English: “Woman-Life-Freedom”) is a powerful revolutionary and transformative social uprising that began in the Kurdish regions of the Middle East and has since resonated across the globe. Rooted in feminist and anti-authoritarian values, it advocates for gender equality, bodily autonomy, and the dismantling of patriarchal…
By Hasse-Nima Golkar WE ARE THE VOICES OF THE REBELLIOUS PEOPLE RESISTING AGAINST EXPLOITATIVE AND PATRIARCHAL SYSTEMS! According to social media reports, a young female student, under the supervision of the “Morality Security Police,” had been monitored for several weeks by the “Security Guards of Islamic Azad University of Tehran” due to “non-compliance with mandatory…
By Hasse-Nima Golkar WHERE IS ”WARISHEH MORADI”? The situation for Warisheh Moradi, a Woman Rights Activist in Kurdistan, is dangerous. She has been subjected to forced disappearance since August 1, 2023, near the Kurdish city of Sanandaj in the northwest of the country by the security forces of the ruling fascist Shia Islamic state in…
I was born in 2001. I still smell my mother whenever I see fire. My sister and I were both six years old when my mother, due to my father’s endless beatings and accusations, poured gasoline on herself. By the time the neighbors reached her, there was nothing left of my mother. My father didn’t…
I was born in the late 1980s. My father was a left-wing political prisoner in the 80s, and I was conceived during the prison visits. After my father’s release when I was two years old, even though he was educated, he had to go to other jobs because of his political background. My mother couldn’t…
I was born in 2003. I do not know my father. I wish I didn’t know my mother. It is not strange for a country girl to become a woman at the age of ten, at least not around us. Becoming a woman means being rented for a month’s worth of food. In the many…
من متولد ۱۳۸۱ هستم. پدر خود را ندیدم. ای کاش مادرم را هم نمیدیدم. برای یک دختر شهرستانی در ده سالگی زن شدن چیز عجیبی نیست. حداقل در اطراف ما اینگونه نیست. زن شدن یعنی تو را برای پولی در حد غذای ماهیانه کرایه بدهند. بسیاری از کتابها را که میخواندم احساس میکردم نویسنده مرا…
I was born in 2004. Like many other comrades, I don’t know in which hospital I was born. But the hellish city where I grew up is clipped to Khuzestan province. Like my other comrades, my first prison was family, and I learned the struggle bit by bit from there. My uncle killed my older…