- 1. Check out this Cool Vintage Iranian 70's Fashion Magazine from Before the Islamic Revolutio
- (Style)
- ... the brutal treatment. Ever since that day, both Iranian men and women have been protesting on the street against the strict guidelines regarding women's clothing under the Islamic Regime, and a conversation ...
- Created on 28 October 2022
- 2. As Iranian Protests For Women's Rights Continue, The Hair For Freedom Movement Has Just Begu
- (Feminism)
- A new era in Iranian history began five weeks ago with the tragic death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian woman who was arrested by the morality police for not wearing her hijab correctly. ...
- Created on 24 October 2022
- 3. Women's Rights are at the Center of Deadly Iranian Protests. It's About Ti
- (Feminism)
- For the first time since the 1979 Iranian Revolution and birth of the Islamic Republic, Persian women and men have taken to the streets to fight for justice for women. Combatting police brutality, an ...
- Created on 23 September 2022
- 4. Iranian Women Can Now Enter A Soccer Stadium For The First Time In Decades
- (Feminism)
- Iranian women will be able to officially enter a soccer stadium on Thursday for the first time in nearly 40 years to watch Iran's 2022 World Cup qualifier against Cambodia, a historic feat after FIFA ...
- Created on 09 October 2019
- 5. 16 Books By Women Coming Out In January 2019 That We Can't Wait To Rea
- (Books)
- ... unrest just before the Iranian Revolution, this historical novel follows an ensemble of characters working in an ancient orchard in Naishapur. How To Date Men When You Hate Men by Blythe Roberson (January ...
- Created on 03 January 2019
- 6. Artist Sheida Soleimani Creates Petroleum Pin-Ups To Fetishize the World's Reliance On Oil: BUST Intervie
- (Arts)
- Sheida Soleimani’s understanding of the world has always been shaped by art and injustice. Both of the Iranian-American artist’s parents opposed the totalitarian Iranian government in the early '80s, ...
- Created on 29 March 2018
- 7. Queer Latina Hero, America Chavez, Joins The Marvel Universe
- (Entertainment)
- Queer Latina hero America Chavez is the newest addition to the Marvel universe — and a much-needed one! In 2016, Marvel introduced us to Ayo and Aneka, two revolutionary queer black women who ...
- Created on 27 January 2017
- 8. Iranian Women Fight For Their Right To Bike
- (Feminism)
- Iranian Women Lose Their Right to Bike Things have been tough for Iranian women ever since the country’s 1979 revolution severely curtailed their rights. And now, even their right to ride bicycles ...
- Created on 23 January 2017
- 9. Iranian Women Arrested After Posting Photos On Instagram
- (Feminism)
- Eight Iranian women have been arrested over “promiscuous” photos they posted on Instagram. The photos showed the women fully clothed, but missing a very important piece of attire: a headscarf. All eight ...
- Created on 18 May 2016
- 10. How Marjane Satrapi Went From Comics To The Oscars: 52 Weeks of Directors
- (Movies)
- ... to Wikipedia, her parents were highly educated members of “an urbanized stratum of Iranian society.” They were politically active and supported Marxist causes against the monarchy of the last Shah. She’s ...
- Created on 28 April 2016
- 11. 52 Weeks of Directors: Samira Makhmalbaf
- (Movies)
- ... most influential directors as part of the second wave of Iranian New Wave cinema. Iranian film was originally reflective of popular cinema of Hollywood and India, rather than reflecting the country’s ...
- Created on 26 February 2016
- 12. Iran Once Offered Free Birth Control to All Its Citizens, and It Was Amazing
- (Feminism)
- ... interpretation of Islam. The family-planning program, now thought of as being too “Western,” was dismantled. Then, in 1980, Saddam Hussein’s forces invaded the country, and hundreds of thousands of Iranians ...
- Created on 14 January 2016
- 13. Iranian Women Let Their Hair Down for #StealthFreedom Movement
- (Feminism)
- Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad calls selfies "private moments of freedom." This statement is universal, but in a country where Facebook is illegal it takes on a whole new meaning. Many of us take our ...
- Created on 12 May 2014
- 14. 10 Best Female-Centric Biopics
- (Movies)
- ... Stratapi's story of growing up during the Iranian revolution. Image Via lifevsfilm.com La Vie En Rose (2007) Not knowing who Edith Piaf even was when I first watched this film starring Marion Cotillard, ...
- Created on 10 December 2013
- 15. Book Review: A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea: A Novel
- (General)
- ... groups, queerness in Iranian culture, Islamic universities, secret Christians, arranged marriages, and the risks of the black market—topics that I wish had been more fully explored, though the glimpses ...
- Created on 05 March 2013
- 16. The Last Living Slut: Born in Iran, Bred Backstage
- (Books)
- Born in Tehran on the cusp of the Iranian Revolution, Roxana Shirazi is raised in a traditional household, which starts to fall apart when her father abandons the family. At a young age, she begins to ...
- Created on 29 July 2010
- 17. Ladies' Night (of Sorrow): Two new HBO docs are enlightening bring-downs
- (Feminism)
- ... Neda." The film tells the story of the murder of Neda Sultana and the recent Iranian uprisings, but again, the main takeaway is how restricted the lives of Iranian women are. Neda, it turns out, was no ...
- Created on 17 June 2010
- 18. Boobquake!
- (Feminism)
- Have y'all heard of Boobquake? It was a joke facebook event started by Jennifer McCreight in response to Iranian Prayer Leader Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi's quote that, "Many women who do not dress modestly ...
- Created on 27 April 2010
- 19. Bust Blog Interview: Roxana Saberi, Iranian-American Journalist and Screenwriter of No One Knows About Persian Cats
- (Feminism)
- ... defiant, and illegal underground music scene, is the focus of Kurdish-Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi’s latest film, No One Knows about Persian Cats. Shot without permission in the Iranian capital, the ...
- Created on 23 April 2010
- 20. Iranian Women and The Uprising: Culture, Rights, and Roundhouse Kicks
- (Feminism)
- ... the cops and the Revolutionary Guard, and in a center-stage tragedy, taking a bullet to the heart. The women of Iran are in the house, and they're in the front row. It's unfortunate that this Iranian uprising ...
- Created on 01 July 2009
