Say her name! (Mahsa Amini)

Say her name! (Mahsa Amini)

Mahsa Amini, a 22 year old Kurdish woman from the Saqqez city of Iran was arrested and beaten to death by the morality police of Iran for not fully covering her head.

Heteropatriarchal, religious supremacist, nationalists, white supremacists, settler colonial governments continue to wage war against the body of women, trans women, Black, Indigenous and racialized women, queer and trans women. We witnessed the overturning of Roe versus Wade in the U.S, the ongoing surveillance, violence and killing of Black and Indigenous women by police here in Canada and elsewhere globally, the rise of white ethnonationalism fascism, and racism has escalated the heteromasculine impulse resulting in increased management and control of women's bodies across the globe.

But we say our bodies are our choice. Kurdish and Iranian women have risen up and are flooding the streets of Iran in defiance of violent police attacks with all intentions of bringing the government down. Women and queers and trans Black racialized and Indigenous women have led uprisings historically and we've seen this happening in 2020 and continue to do so globally. Women in Iran are a force to be reckoned with like women in Turkey, like women in Syria, like women in Egypt, like women in Palestine, like women here. Black women, Indigenous women, racialized women in Canada in the U.S and globally, in Brazil, continue to be a force of defiance and a force to be reckoned with particularly those of us as women who refuse the capitalists hetero patriarchal religious supremacist racist and fascist state.

So let us keep flooding the streets in support of our sisters in Iran, in Palestine, in Turkey, in Syria, in Canada, in the U.S, in Brazil, and everywhere else that women are rising up against state oppression.

We cannot wait, we must not wait, the time is now. Say her name (Mahsa Amini).

Say her name (Mahsa Amini).

Liberation Now!