Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani

Translated By Simin D

Saturday 28 April 2007

We have gathered here today to talk about two friends from the women's movement — Nahid Keshavarz and Mahboube Hosseinzadeh — who have been arrested for collecting signatures to change discriminating laws against women. Even though they're in prison, I do not intend to speak here of shackles and red-hot pokers and I do not want to speak of insults and daggers, for I know this language is not what Nahid Keshavarz and Mahboube Hosseinzadeh nor the women's movement wants to promote. I do not intend to say what the "enemy" has done to us, for creating enemies has no place in the minds of Nahid and Mahboubeh but rather in those who even fear their own shadows. I do not want to create divisions within the women's movement by separating the authentic from the inauthentic.

I do not even want to say free Nahid and Mahboubeh, for I know that in their feminine wisdom, freedom is a collective achievement. Instead, I want to speak of Nahid and Mahboubeh's feminine imagination. I want to speak of how Nahid and Mahboubeh have knocked through the dead end realities of women's lives by using the power of their feminine imagination. Today the tale of Nahid and Mahboubeh from Evin Prison is the tale of the pain of hundreds of female prisoners and their story is that of the One Million Signatures Campaign which was borne from womanly imagination. (leer más...)

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