e-flux Journal #145

<p>This issue of <em>e-flux journal</em> is a collective reflection on the afterlife of the 2022 Jina uprising and the historical and material forces that compelled it. The issue’s authors are all based in Iran and are women activists and writers working across feminist, social, and civil fields. Due to security concerns and the criminalization of dissident voices within Iran, all use pen names to mask their identities. The essays include voices from ethnic and national struggle movements (in Kurdistan and Balochistan), campaigns against the death penalty and for Afghan migrant rights, and movements against the involuntary wearing of the hijab. Against the abstractions of our hyper-mediated time, their writing posits the body as a mode of inscription, as history incorporated, tracing its enforced subjections and emancipatory convulsions through the singular mutations of each body that contributed to the feminist revolution we witnessed. About twenty months since Jina’s point zero, these writings map the movement’s specificity in the genealogy of postrevolutionary insurrections in Iran.</p> <p><strong>Editorial</strong><br /> Ghoncheh Ghavami and Bahar Noorizadeh</p> <p><strong>To Summon Life in a Cemetery</strong><br /> Nahal Nikan</p> <p><strong>When Silence Is Broken and Voices Ring Out</strong><br /> Arnavaz</p> <p><strong>Heads Without Headscarves</strong><br /> Negar Hatami</p> <p><strong>Cleansing Personal Archives and the Birth of the Black Hole of Collective Memory</strong><br /> Elaheh</p> <p><strong>A Struggle for Everyone<br /> </strong>Shouka Alizadeh and Goli Baharan</p> <p><strong>A Power from Within</strong><br /> Nuzhan Didartalab</p> <p><strong>Jina, the Moment of No Return</strong><br /> Aram</p> <p><strong>Inflection Points of a Pluralist Feminist Revolution<br /> </strong>Parva</p> <p><strong>Why Is Maho Our Symbol?</strong><br /> Dasgoharan</p>