busstop:

hedgewitchwanderings:

loleepop-dizeez:

shitposter-nugget:

too-easy-being-green:

Here’s a feminist issue and hey, whaddaya know? Almost no western feminists talking about it. Imagine that.

http://jewishjournal.com/news/world/230117/woman-iconic-iran-protests-photo-identified/

http://iran-hrm.com/index.php/2018/01/24/iconic-women-known-girl-enghelab-street-arrested/

http://inliniedreapta.net/jurnal/where_is_she-vida-movahed-e-tanara-iraniana-arestata-si-disparuta-din-27-decembrie-2017/

https://www.trendsmap.com/twitter/tweet/956223104472244226

https://babalublog.com/2018/01/25/brave-iranian-woman-who-took-off-her-hijab-and-waved-it-during-protest-is-missing/

I hope that she is released alive and safe and that there will be a day when things like this dont happen. This sort of treatment is unjust and oppressive.

@shitposter-nugget

Damn I hope she is safe

Serious courage

I’m not Muslim but this is quite clearly why we need to listen to non white women on this. Plenty of people who live in the West and wear the hijab have outright said they do not feel they are oppressed, while women in countries where it is law. often do feel oppressed by it. It doesn’t mean one size fits all rules should apply. Listening to people should not be this hard.

Update: A human rights lawyer says that Vida Movahed has been released. This hasn’t been independently verified but Nasrin Sotoudeh says she saw the documentation of release in the prosecutor’s office.

No details yet on what has happened to 29-30 other women arrested for ‘public order offences’ (removing their hijabs in public).

Also:

Elham Khatami: “A reminder that women in Iran are protesting *forced* hijab, not the idea of hijab altogether. Bears repeating since lots of ppl are projecting their Islamophobia onto the protests.” https://t.co/Ygs7asbIkr

Armin Navabi: “An elderly woman in #Iran joins the protest against forced #hijab. She has difficulty walking. But that doesn’t stop her from showing her support.” https://t.co/TiI9hllXH9