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incase anyone has been struggling recently

i just want to remind you that you’re more than enough, you deserve to be here, and you deserve to be loved.

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—Sarah Jean Alexander

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People who are kind to others without any reason or anything are my favorite kinda people.

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Poets are the painters of human experience, capturing the colors of their heart in verse.

~@agelesslibrary

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i think i’m just in love with the version of him i made up in my head

#fuck love #heartbreak #i miss him #lol

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as a persian girl i really wish that everyone informs themselves about the protests in Iran !!! people have no internet access, are being k!lled and beaten to d3ath on the streets. the whole political system is a joke and a threat to human rights for all people in that country. it is my duty to use my voice for these people who aren't able to do so and i hope you do the same!!!

this is a women's rights issue and a human rights issue.

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Mahsa Amini: How A 43 Year Long Battle Has Finally Made It Into The Light

I am done with being silent. 

I am done with tolerating the silence of others. 

My name is Daria Malek, and I am an Iranian-Canadian writer who’s art was silenced due to the control of the Iranian regime. Ironically, The Green Ney was a story of how women were silenced during the Iranian revolution, especially their art. 

Yesterday, on Saturday October 1st, over fifty thousand people had closed off Yonge Street, the longest street in the world, protesting for Mahsa Amini, and the other 83 people murdered for speaking up for their human rights. 

I am so privileged to live in a country where I, not only as a woman, but also a visibly minority, have protection beyond my rights. And as I watch my fellow Iranians in their homeland fight for theirs, it makes me wonder what am I do to with this privilege? What am I to do with the freedom of speech that I have? 

I was silenced by the Iranian regime, but that is no longer. 

Four years ago, I began writing a novel called The Green Ney, the story of an infertile American journalist in a dying marriage, who travels to Iran in January 1979 and gets stuck in the middle of the bloodshed of the Iranian Revolution with a lonely, mute orphan to care for. 

Through her journey, she met multiple women who symbolized each right that was stripped from them during the revolution. Each of these 12 women were women that I had met on my trip to Iran in 2016, spanning over the three cities that I have visited. These are real women. These are real people. 

This was my time to speak for these women who were silenced in their own dirt but, I had to face a dilemma: if I were to publish this novel, I would be banned from going back home to my country, and even put my family, including my grandparents, in harms way. 

This was three years ago. Enough is enough. It is time to speak up. 

Mahsa Amini was 22 years old when she was detained by “morality police” in Iran for not wearing her headscarf on her head correctly. Not because she had killed someone, assaulted someone, or stolen something from someone but, because she had not covered her hair to the standard of the “morality police.” How ironic that they are called “morality police” when they have no problem murdering a child because they are so weak to be worried about the hair of a women turning men on. Where are your morals?

Why are you painting our men to be so weak? So weak, that the wrists and ankles of a woman may awaken their uncontrollable sexual urges? 

Our men are better than this. Our women are more respectable than this. 

The greatest part of watching these protests was seeing the men and women come together in unison to fight for the women of Iran together. 

For Mahsa Amini, you will always be remembered as an awakening for the people and a motion for change. We will honour your name and what you did to change the world. 

Shervin Hajipour, your angelic voice and talent will be forever in our ears, singing for what you believe in, in hopes that people will listen and feel your pain and we did. 

Hadis Najafi, your courage will never be forgotten. To be so brave, beyond your years, only for them to strip you of the rest of your life. But, I hope you know that they may have taken your life but they could never take away the strength and bravery that you possessed. When I watch the video of your blonde hair going up in a ponytail, ready to fight for the land you walk on, it gives me chills - an inspiration to truly step up. 

For all the other people who were protesting or injured and murdered for speaking up: you make me proud to call myself an Iranian. We as people have a history of being headstrong and courageous. We must protect our beautiful culture, our art, our poetry, our food, our dance and everything that makes us Iranian, from the Islamic regime. They stole it from us once and it is our duty to take it back. 

What started off as a feministic fight, turned into a humanitarian revolution. 

If you have any Iranian friends, please reach out to them. Ask them how they are doing. Give them a hug and stand by them. They’re worried about their families back home; they can’t talk to them or hold them. Give back the support that we gave the rest of the world when they needed us. 

And please, help us be the voice of the people who don’t have one. 

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Why are Iranians protesting in the streets?

For freedom.

The internet in Iran has been cut off. Please help us by spreading the news.

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People outside of iran are asking how they can help. I can suggest these options:

Be our voice, spread our stories. It's important to share what's happening in Iran as much as you can. The more people hear about it, the harder it gets for governments to deny it. Acknowledgment can be a tool here.

Have peaceful gatherings and protests in front of Iran embassy in your country of residence if possible. Obviously I don't want anyone to get in trouble but if you live in a country that allows freedom of speech and peaceful protests, do it. The sense of solidarity alone helps our courage.

Demand your government to un-recognize our government as legit. We do not know Islamic republic of Iran as our representative government, we wish other countries to stop shaking hands and welcoming Islamic republic politicians in international affairs. Iran's current government is not recognized by majority of people and it shouldn't be by other nations. You can demand this by just tweeting and posting about it.

Thank you in advance for any help you're able to do. We appreciate it.

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CAN YOU HEAR US??

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The protests in Iran may have started against the mandatory hijab law and wanting justice for Mahsa Amini's death but now it has turned into a protest _ a war dare I say _ against the whole regime. People are just fed up with the dictatorship of Ali Khamenei and want him gone! They are chanting things like "death to the dictator" and "death to the Islamic Republic" in the streets. And it's not something new it's just for the first time we've been able to raise our voices and make the world listen. The mahsa amini tag has been trending on Twitter for days and Iranians are still trying to keep it trending so please be our voice and spread the news. Let the world know the real face of our government.

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Remember: women burning hijabs in iran right now aren't doing this bacause they want to end Islam, they are doing this because they are being forced to wear a hijab even if they aren't Muslim. Because they are going to jail for not wearing it, being beaten for not wearing it.

True freedom implies beeing free to choose, choose your faith, what you wear. Every deserves the right to choose. I stand by iranian women.

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Hijab - a symbol of dignity, inclusion and liberty when it is chosen to be wore.

Hijab - a symbol of oppression and cruelty when forced to be wore.

It isn't about hijab, it's about choice. If I want I will wear it, if I don't I will not. No one can stop me from doing so. Forcing someone to not wear hijab is wrong, every person has a right to do so but forcing someone to wear it is equally wrong.

The condition in Iran is not to be taken lightly. Mahsa Amini, a 22 year old was beaten to death by the police because of not wearing hijab properly. People in Iran are protesting for their rights. Women are cutting their hair off and burning their hijab to show what they want. Internet services are shutting down so that the people of Iran cannot use their voice.

It is now our responsibility to be their voice. If they can stand upto their government without any fear, why can't we be their voice?

Hijab is beautiful when it is chosen to be wore but it's beauty dies when it is forced.

If a 14 year old can understand that, why can't the whole world do?

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I’m in tears. My heart goes out to all the brave women and men fighting against the authoritarian religious oppression

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An iranian terrorist police officer has raped a 15 year old girl in custody of police. The government has put her parents under house arrest after the local Mullah verified what had happened.

These are savages that we are dealing with.