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Intersectionality is at the Foundation of the Women Life Freedom Movement
1media/GettyImages-1244430868 (1).jpg2024-10-09T10:49:41-07:00Intersectionality in the Women Life Freedom Movement2plain2024-10-29T21:55:25-07:00When addressing the issues affecting women in Iran, it must be from a perspective that emphasizes intersectionality. Perspectives that concentrate too much on the relationship strictly between violence and gender risk oversimplifying the complicated web of issues like race, linguistics, religion, and class, all of which contribute to the greater threat of repression. Additionally, intersectionality best helps us understand the solidarity this movement has with movements around the world. In Manijeh Moradian's "Embodying Revolution..." the author emphasizes the importance of widening our critical lense to encompass Palestine, Iran, Afghanistan, and Latin America. One example in the text is the parallel drawn between the struggle in Iran and the ongoing feminist movement in Chile. Deftly combining an intersectional approach with one that analyzes diverse media which furthers the messages of revolutionary movements, the author brought the song "A Rapist in Your Path," to my attention. This song, by Chilean group "Las Tesis," is an important example of music in revolutionary movements; it allows daunting and taboo topics to be broached in a manner that is frank, understandable, and highly transmittable. The author continues in her intersectional vein of discourse, and transitions to the bottom-up solidarity that the WLF movement has inspired within Iran. Focusing on class, she includes the rape of a fifteen-year-old girl by the police chief in the impoverished Baluchestan region. In this case, in addition to gender, low socioeconomic status adds another dimension to the oppression experienced by women in Iran. This event spawned the movement "Voice of Baloch Women." Indeed, the causes of WLF extend beyond equality for women, in the charter issued by a civil coalition in 2023. It notably included a cry for the rights of LGBTQIA individuals, in addition to the emancipation of women from the patriarchal Iranian power structure through the attainment of total rights over their bodies and choices.
