go beyond Iran.
Mahsa Amini has become a rallying point for women the world over. Maybe the time has come for the world to sit up and take notice of women, for we are the foundation on which the world is built. We have tried many ways to make the world understand this, accept us and give us our rightful place. Mahsa is the latest among a long line of women who, down the ages, have tried to make the world SEE them—-see us women not just as commodities or who can bring money in, but as persons with intelligence, feelings, and capabilities. But the world just refuses to do so. The fact that the protests in Iran are being picked up by women in other parts of the world is a signal going out that we sisters will stand together to fight for what is our basic right….we will fight to be seen and heard…we will fight for each other…the fight has gone beyond the hijab, it is now our soul that we are fighting for…
