This publication may feel final. This page might feel like the beginning, and the last page like an end. Yet, it is more like a pause; an intervention in an ongoing process that keeps evolving, shifting, and transforming. This is a loose leaf from a diary, a chapter from a larger collection,
a captured moment like a photograph still from a lengthy movie. And it will change, as all things do, in the hindsight that the future holds. This publication stands as fragmented yet interconnected expression of identity, activism, and hope for collective liberation. Coincidentally, its release in October 2024 marks the second anniversary of Mahsa Jina Amini’s murder, whose name sparked and fueled the Jin, Jiyan, Azadi – Woman, Life, Freedom revolution. This is a practice of remembrance, defiance, and endurance, a way of containing multitudes, at times fragmented.
©️ 2024
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Photos by: Jonas Matyassy, Tezerash Mergen, Thomas Lenden
