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Inspiring Words from Women Facing Despair with Hope and Resilience
My reactions to and takeaways from several of the forty-two moving journal entries from three Iranian women published in the New York Times
Last night, at about 2 am, I woke and decided to read a piece that had appeared in my New York Times app feed a few days earlier (this is a gift link — i.e., unlocked/not behind their paywall).
[by now the gift link will have expired so here’s a standard link]
Once I started, I could not put it down — held captive by the words, wisdom, courage, and universal spirituality displayed in the vulnerable prose of these women that the publication had approached to create, keep, and share diary entries about their experiences since the protest movement — known as Woman, Life, Freedom — began last September after the brutal death of a young woman, Mahsa Amini, at the hands of the morality police for not strictly complying with the hajib-wearing rules. The movement then transformed into broader…
