'The crux is a fight for the autonomy to make choices over one’s body—a point that today resonants with feminists around the globe,' writes Narges Bajoghli.
#MahsaAmini was the call to action. The senseless violence and absurdity of her death—a 22-year-old who died in a coma after being arrested for allegedly wearing her headscarf improperly in Tehran—was both ordinary and extraordinary. While Iranian authorities claim that Amini died due to a preexisting medical condition, it was the ordinariness of the violence of Iran’s so-called “morality police” and security forces that struck such a nerve for women and young people.
Iran’s misogynistic laws and the structural violence at the heart of the country’s political state was first resisted by Iranian feminists in 1979, in the throes of a victorious popular revolution that had elderly cleric Ruhollah Khomeini at its helm. Groups of women bravely chanted “Down with Khomeini” only three weeks after he had returned from Paris to Iran and declared a desire to institute compulsory veiling for the new revolutionary state.
This connection between Iranian women’s uprising and the increase in laws curtailing women’s choices in places like the United States, India, and Afghanistan is no accident. Activists, artists, and young people around the world have readily articulated these ties to one another as they urge each other to share posts about the uprising and keep #MahsaAmini trending.
Members of the millennial generation were at the helm of the first era of movements broadcast and cocreated on social media, including Iran’s Green Movement, the Arab Spring revolutions, Occupy Wall Street, and Black Lives Matter. In the past five years, members of Generation Z have joined and added new energy to build popular uprisings against the fundamental structures that uphold those in power and that are endangering the planet.
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