17 سال با حجابم و بیشتر از ۱۰ سال در جامعه‌ی مسلمانان به فعالیت مشغولم. اسلام محور اخلاقی من است.ایرانی‌ام و عمیقا تفاوت بین سوزاندن نمادهای دولتی مانند حجاب اجباری را با حمله به اسلام می‌فهمم.این‌ یک‌ نکته‌ی کلیدی است چرا که دولت می‌خواهد در این جنبش تفرقه بیاندازد
#مهسا_امینی پس از گذراندن زمان قابل توجهی در اعتراضات/جنبش‌ها در آمریکا طی سال‌ها، می‌خواهم بر اساس بسیاری از کامنت‌‌هایی که طی روزهای اخیر دیده‌ام مواردی را به اشتراک بگذارم
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I've been wearing hijab for 17yrs. Islam is my moral compass & one of the central most part of my identity.
I’m also Iranian & understand the difference between burning symbols of the state it has co-opted (like a headscarf that is mandated) vs an assault on Islam 1/
#MahsaAmini 2/ Dangerously framing this as assault on Islam would alienate millions of Iranian Muslims in Iran & around the world. This is KEY right now because the Iranian gov is also trying to polarize the mvmt to divide protestors & allies (that are LED BY MUSLIM and non-Muslim women)

hi 🥰 Pls meet our most ambitious project to date, and what I've been working on secretly for over a year now: announcing 63rd House, a 11,250sqft abolitionist community space + new @BlueTinStudio HQ in Chicago Lawn, imagined w/Black & brown organizers: bluetinproduction.com/63rdhouse/ 63rd House is our radical, multi-functional community space & net-zero emission manufacturing studio designed in collab w/@studiogang & months of mtgs w/Black and brown youth + organizers in Chicago Lawn including from orgs @TGiMovement @GKMC18 englewood, @ArtsPrison & others!✨

Non-violence is a tactic/strategy. Not an ideology.
Being anti-violence means destroying the tools of violence.

I've been getting a lot of messages, so I want to help esp non-Black people understand what you're seeing so you can talk about it with your family (& then mobilize). In Chicago ~6 police cars were set ablaze & banks/chain restaurants were destroyed. So, who became unsafe by the damage of inanimate objects, tool & symbols of violence?

Bc I can tell you exactly who (humans, not objects) that feel unsafe & are harmed by banks and cops.

BREAKING: US CUSTOMS & BORDER PROTECTION NATIONALLY HAVE BEEN ORDERED TO DETAIN & "REPORT" ALL IRANIANS ENTERING THE COUNTRY DEEMED POTENTIALLY SUSPICIOUS OR "ADVERSARIAL" REGARDLESS OF CITIZENSHIP STATUS. 60+ Iranis held last night at the US/Canada border for 11+ hrs / thread Press release pt 1

I know this may come as a shock to many, but you can find both the Iranian gov & US gov corrupt. It’s possible. You can understand that the internet block in Iran is deeply horrid while knowing that US sanctions have been blocking Iranians from internet services for yrs already. Bc of the internet block I’ve been trying to buy calling cards to contact fam & friends. It hasn’t been working. And thanks to US sanctions, I also can’t call/contact using google voice or other US-based services. If you want to talk about communications block, blame the USA too

okay time to talk about Israel's apartheid wall & checkpoints: a thread.
In the short time I was in Palestine last month, on 2 separate occasions Israeli soldiers made my friends take their pants down at the checkpoint between the West Bank & Israel. We were walking through the checkpoint & they yanked her aside & forced her to drop her pants & lift her shirt in a tiny room while a teen soldier watched from behind a camera in the ceiling, machine gun in hand (clearly just for aesthetics given you can’t shoot through a camera)

Hi just a friendly reminder that "objectivity" is a white myth™ that erases histories of colonialism from whiteness making it seem like white people are somehow better equipped to talk about your people & culture than you are, because you're "too close" to the subject matter. Spoke today at a local college & was called "too subjective", which I hear a lot. Yet, if I said the same things as a white person I wouldn't have been questioned. Like white people have nothing to gain from a growing body of reductive research that continues to orientalize us!

a quick(ish) thread on Israel's intense state of militarism, and its interconnectedness with what's happening in Yemen, Kashmir, and mass shootings in the USA -- ^I took this when the the IDF decided to stop our bus headed to the West Bank from Jerusalem & check everyone’s ID’s. Just TWO mins from the military checkpoint we were about to go through, where we about to get searched AGAIN by teens holding machine guns.