He's alive, unfortunately!

In Iran music, singing, and dancing are all subject to rules to exclude women. This is one of the many examples of Gender Apartheid in Iran.

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#genderapartheid #womensrights #iran

Parastoo Ahmadi - Iranian Musician - Gender Apartheid - Karvansara Concert YouTube video by Documenting Gender Apartheid

Share the story of Parastoo Ahmadi, who pushed back against gender apartheid.

youtu.be/hUOpu-syCiM

#GenderApartheid #parastooahmadi
#iranmusic

I’m a day late, but this is a gem from @samueltongue.bsky.social in the Advent calendar raising funds for Medicine sans Frontieres created by @annierutherford.bsky.social 🎄

I sometimes look at this bluesky and ask myself, isn't it gray these days?

Two gilt and lacquered papier-mâché #book covers
Mirza Aga Imami, Iran, 19th century
28.2 x 19.2 cm

Each cover depicts pheasants with gold foliage on black, bordered by palmette scrolls on red. The reverse has a gold frame on red, with one signed in the lower right corner.

#Persian #art #painting

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin

Skeiv bok ble bedt fjernet fra skole: – Fikk kaffen i halsen Arendal-rektor ba om fjerning av «Gender Queer» fra skolebiblioteket, etter kommunens anbefaling. Nå snur rektoren og bekager.

Bibliotekarene har alltid vært, og vil alltid være vår viktigste skanse mot stupiditet og autokrati.
Men det blir bare synlig når tidene hardner.

With a changing key,
you unlock the house where
the snow of what’s silenced drifts.
Just like the blood that bursts from
Your eye or mouth or ear,
so your key changes.

Paul Celan

#poetry #poem #translation

It is emotionally overwhelming and deeply painful to see the videos of release for political prisoners opposing a dictator like #Asad after many years of imprisonment.

It's amazing how Persian poetry has influenced other arts, including painting. You can often find verses next to a painting.

Three #paintings ascribed to 'Abd Al-Hayy Astar Abadi, Circa 1370-80
- Two cranes standing in a pool
- A heron landing
- Two herons with ducks

#Persian #Poetry #art

My madness and my fear
have wide dead eyes
and the steady gaze of fever...

Georges Bataille

#Poetry #poem

Lillehammer, a UNESCO City of Literature, #ICORN city of refuge,
Norwegian Literature Festival city, ...and our home.

#Lillehammer #Norge #Norway

The Most Useless and Overpriced Mobile Apps You Won’t Believe Exist Have you ever scrolled through the app store and thought, “Who would actually download this?” Well, you’re not alone. Today, I want to take…

Just published a new blog post that's the written version of my podcast episode! 🎙️📖
Dive into the world of the most bizarre, useless, and overpriced mobile #apps you won't believe exist.
It's a fun exploration of the quirkiest corners of the tech world.
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Iran releases Nobel peace laureate Mohammadi on medical leave, says lawyer Temporary release is inadequate, activist’s family and supporters say, urging her unconditional release

Released, but not free. #Iran #nargesmohammadi

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

This is so good. @ellafrears.bsky.social writes horror and satire and pathos and eros and real, real life and hallucinations into each good sentence

My whole being is a dark chant
which will carry you
perpetuating you
to the dawn of eternal growths and blossoming
in this chant I sighed you, sighed
in this chant
I grafted you to the tree, to the water, to the fire.

Forough Farrokhzad
#poem #translation #persianpoetry

#LiftSelfie

In many ways it was the
same as you can't find
what you are searching
for when you don't
know what it is,
but somehow you
spend days looking
in all the wrong places
hoping one day to remember.

#David_Bowie
#poetry #lyric

Sometimes I miss the Iran depicted in art, but then I remember it's not the full reality of that time.

A large underglaze-painted pottery tile, Persia, circa 1880, rectangular, showing a musician, dancer, and figures under a flowering tree, with a floral border.
#Persian #art #painting #blue

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Albert Einstein
#war #MiddleEast

#Mehrah_AbdullahZadeh, a 27-year-old from Urmia, #Iran, has been sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court. He was arrested during the #WomanLifeFreedom protests and reportedly tortured in detention. His family is under pressure and threats from security forces to remain silent.

Do you know Maryam Mirzakhani?

Women arrested by Taliban for begging report rape and killings in Afghan jails Draconian new laws allow mass incarceration of women and children forced to beg because of work ban

Unequal access to #justice is one form of #genderapartheid.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The worst thing was having doubts and the wonderful thing about being able to close your eyes and say God exists, or God does not exist, and believe it.

Conversation in the Cathedral
#MarioVargasLlosa
#book #novel

‏مخفی‌ست در گلوی تو چیزی
مخفی‌ست در سرم چمدانی
تردید می‌کنی بروی یا....
ترجیح می‌دهم که بمانی

#فاطمه_اختصاری

Album page with a seated couple in a landscape
Date: circa 1640
Location: Iran, Isfahan
Dimensions: 13.3 x 18.1 cm

#Persian #Painting

Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship.

Fight club
#film

Et desperat menneske skriker, men skriket er ikke noe dikt.

Arnulf Øverland

Sadegh Tabrizi
b. 1938
Untitled
signed S. Tabrizi
oil on canvas
43 by 33.5 cm.
Executed circa 1960s - 1970s.
#Persian #painting #art