{"id":8546,"date":"2024-12-02T15:11:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T20:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/?p=8546"},"modified":"2024-12-13T16:18:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T21:18:52","slug":"jinas-uprising-a-feminist-look-at-two-years-of-struggle-and-resistance-developments-and-dynamics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/jinas-uprising-a-feminist-look-at-two-years-of-struggle-and-resistance-developments-and-dynamics\/","title":{"rendered":"Jina&#8217;s Uprising: A Feminist Look at Two Years of Struggle and Resistance, Developments and Dynamics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Jina Uprising; A feminist analysis of 2 years of struggle, resistance and transformations(Eng. Sub.)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vrvAAtOMaTM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the second anniversary of the \u201cwoman, life, freedom\u201d uprising, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/feminists4jina.net\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Feminists for Jina<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a transnational Iranian feminist network, held a panel discussion reflecting on the lessons and lasting impacts of this unprecedented, mass feminist revolt. While the events that precipitated the uprising are well known outside Iran, they nonetheless bear repeating because they crystallize the violent logics of heteropatriarchal authoritarian states everywhere.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jina (Mahsa) Amini was arrested on September 13, 2022 while she was visiting Tehran from her home in Iranian Kurdistan. The so-called morality police detained her and beat her for allegedly failing to wear her state-mandated hijab correctly. Three days later she died in custody.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The revolutionary Kurdish slogan \u201cwoman, life, freedom\u201d first coined by Rojava women fighters and soon to resonate across Iran and around the world was shouted at the cemetery by the women at Jina\u2019s funeral in Iranian Kurdistan who refused to let her die in vain.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The slogan would eventually unite millions of Iranians across the unequal terrains of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, and geography. It would also echo the slogans and political aspirations of many other feminists\u2014from across the region and as far away as Latin America\u2014who have insisted that gender and sexual liberation must be at the heart of anti-colonial movements.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Outside Iran, almost as soon as the uprising began, the slogan was subjected to cooptation by western governments and diasporic groups who have long hoped for \u201cregime change\u201d in Iran that would return the country to the status of an allied nation carrying out interests of western governments in the region. These geopolitical machinations threatened to profoundly distort the actual aspirations and demands of people on the streets of Iran who were risking and sometimes losing their lives for a vision of freedom beyond the binary of a pro-western state vs. Islamic Republic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BCRW has sponsored the translation of the second anniversary Feminists for Jina panel to make it possible for non-Persian speakers to engage with the complexity of the \u201cwoman, life, freedom\u201d movement from the perspective of intersectional, transnational, and decolonial Iranian feminists who grew up in Iran, who maintain a deep connection to Iranian society from their diasporic locations, and who have dedicated themselves to the difficult project of feminist solidarity across borders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among the topics covered in this panel are what makes a movement \u201cfeminist\u201d and \u201crevolutionary,\u201d how consciousness is transformed through struggle, how to oppose multiple forms of oppression\u2014domestic and foreign\u2014at the same time, and how to assess the lasting impacts of the movement despite massive repression.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2013 Manijeh Moradian, Assistant Professor of Women&#8217;s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p><em>Video translated by Golnar Narimani, <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a PhD candidate in philosophy for her second PhD specializing in phenomenology and German idealism at Universit\u00e9 Grenoble-Alpes, France, and Universit\u00e9 de Fribourg, Switzerland. Alongside her academic career, she has worked as a translator into Farsi since 2010. She has notably translated Geoff Dyer\u2019s <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ongoing Moment <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mohit.art\/network\/herfeh-honarmand\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Herfeh: Honarmand<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 2013 and five volumes of <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy<\/span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published by Qoqnoos from 2013 to 2017.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Speakers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Banafsheh Ranji<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a postdoctoral researcher in sociology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. She has been teaching and researching media and communication studies as well as migration and racism studies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Elham Hoomnifar <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is an assistant professor in the Global Health Studies Program at Northwestern University. Hoominfar is a critical sociologist whose research focuses on intersections of environment and society and understanding social movements with an interdisciplinary approach. She is currently researching environmental justice, water governance, the commodification of nature, and social resistance, emphasizing political economy in the Global South and North. She is working on another study about gender discrimination and women\u2019s movements in Iran.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Mahtab Mahboub<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an Iranian feminist and anti-racist activist and researcher. She fights passionately and patiently for social justice for all. In her research, she explores the experiences of Iranian migrant mothers in Germany at the intersection of class, racialization, migration status, and \u201cintegration\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the second anniversary of the \u201cwoman, life, freedom\u201d uprising, Feminists for Jina, a transnational Iranian feminist network, held a panel discussion reflecting on the lessons and lasting impacts of this unprecedented, mass feminist revolt. 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