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17 May 2023 1 minute read 1 comment Melina Mehr
When the streets of my homeland, Iran were bleeding, covered in violence, screams, and bullets, and the revolution was raging passionately, many believed that the rule of the Islamic Republic of Iran was nearing its end. However, the dictatorship p...
24 Apr 2023 1 minute read 6 comments Melina Mehr
I'm not gonna lie, it's a bit scary not putting on Hijab, the mandatory scarf that society has been used to for more than 40 years. People stare, mostly because they all know the war has begun. Eyes are looking for Hijabless women and their hair...
20 Apr 2023 1 minute read 6 comments Melina Mehr
We have started a new chapter as a nation, something really exciting and terrifying indeed. Whenever we go, we recognize each other by shouting: woman! Life! Freedom! Cyclists riding the freeway showed me victory signs as I yelled our motto, no wo...
9 Apr 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr
For most my life, I had a different vision of what happiness must look like. To be honest, we didn't even believe in happiness and desire and raised to be humble, desire none and respectful to what life throw at us. I could live like that and it wou...
8 Mar 2023 1 minute read 2 comments Melina Mehr
When this amazing movement first started in Iran, it ignited a fire in all of us that we had tried to ignore for o many years. We always knew the way of our lives isn’t fair & we were forced to be obedient. But suddenly it all changed, with the d...
2 Mar 2023 1 minute read 7 comments Melina Mehr
Is Iran regime taking revenge because of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement? It's been a while since I started writing and when we think things won’t get any worse, the situation deteriorates drastically! This video gives you a gist of what's h...
14 Nov 2022 1 minute read 7 comments Melina Mehr
Khodanur means "God's light" For Khodanour, that became another reason for resistance after this picture… Khodanur Lajehi is one of the faces of the recent protests in Iran. After Khodanur was killed, a video of him dancing flooded social media, b...
12 Nov 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr
Navid Afkari Sangari was an Iranian wrestling champion who was sentenced to death and executed after having been accused and convicted of murdering a security guard during the 2018 Iranian protests that caused more than 1500 civilians to die at the...
10 Nov 2022 11 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I'm a little out of order here in my time. This piece should have been inserted about five pieces ago as it introduces Tom and Paola, a couple I met a few weeks before the Caguas Mall began. But it explains some things that followed and is too amus...
10 Nov 2022 1 minute read 3 comments Melina Mehr
I dedicated this post to a girl who was shot while filming a protest, the moment she raised her camera to shoot a sniper’s position, he shot her instantly. A beautiful girl whose courage was more than most men. The government of Iran, which use...
