Tag Archives | International Women's Day

The main losers of 1979, the creators of the new revolution in Iran

Elham Hoominfar

Recently in Iran’s largest city, Tehran, Mahsa Amini, a twenty-two-year-old Kurdish woman, was arrested by Iran’s “morality police” for allegedly wearing her government-mandated hijab inappropriately. She was beaten, and three days later, she died.
Social reproduction and a just post-COVID world

Originally published: SOAS (University of London) on March 8, 2021 by Dr Sara Stevano, Dr Alessandra Mezzadri, Lorena Lombardozzi, and Hannah Bargawi. (more by SOAS (University of London)) (Posted Mar 31, 2021)

After over a year of suffering, death, and profound transformations of everyday life, International Women’s Day 2021 is an opportunity to take stock of the COVID-19 crisis so far and craft visions for a future centred on the value of social reproduction.