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maryamnamazie.bsky.social
Iranian-born writer & campaigner. Called 'immoral, corrupt & a harlot’ by Islamic regime of Iran; ‘distressing & objectionable’ by @TedX. #WomanLifeFreedom
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In the lead-up to #IWD2025 a powerful gathering of activists, legal experts, judges, & artists call for global action at House of Lords. Gender Apartheid: A Crime Against Humanity onelawforall.org.uk/gender-apart...

Systemic oppression, human rights abuses & coercion that accompanies #Ramadan for those who do not or cannot fast makes this month one of fear, suffering & forced compliance for many, says Ex-Muslims International. #RamadanMubarak ex-muslims.international/human-rights...

Speechless at this bravery #bodyriot

Another woman arrested for removing her top in protest in Tehran. Women's bodies used to repress society and used by women in their own hands as a tool for liberation. When women's bodies targeted and erased, the most natural form of resistance is a #bodyriot. #WomanLifeFreedom

Statement by Ex-Muslims International Abolish #blasphemy laws, which are not about respect for religious but a weapon used by theocratic regimes and extremist mobs to crush dissent, erase minority voices, and terrorise those who challenge religious dogma. ex-muslims.international/abolish-blas...

پخشان،شریفه و وریشه هیچ جرمی مرتکب نشده اند. تنها سلاح این حک‌مت انتقام است. احکام اعدام استیصال و انتقام جمهوری اسلامی از مبارزه زنان و جنبش زن زندگی آزادی است. ما سکوت نخواهیم کرد! #WeProtestExecution #نه_به_اعدام #شریفه_محمدی #پخشان_عزیزی #وریشه_مرادی

Update: Doors to open at 3.30pm for a 4pm start to @maryamnamazie.bsky.social's lecture on Confronting Identity Politics. Southall Black Sisters and the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit warmly invite all to join as part of celebrations for #IWD2025. Register ➡️ tinyurl.com/yc2kyrwe

Join Southall Black Sisters Voices of Resistance: Celebrating Black Feminist Trailblazer @rahilag.bsky.social in conversation with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/voices-of-... I have my ticket to celebrate the always brilliant Rahila ❤️

📢 SBS and CWASU invite all to a lecture by @maryamnamazie.bsky.social on Confronting Identity Politics on Friday 7th March as part of International Women’s Week. Join us at London Metropolitan University from 5.30pm to be part of the discussion. Register 👇🏾 1/2 tinyurl.com/yc2kyrwe

More Israeli checkpoints are slicing up the West Bank. “Whatever this is, they’ve planned it well,” he said. “It’s well designed to make our life hell.” apnews.com/article/isra...

Labour is upping the ante on anti-migrant politics just to learn that Farage & the Tories can always, always go further than them. It’s real people who are caught in the crossfire of politicians trying to outdo each other on toughness. How we treat people matters. #r4today

21 March 2025, 19:00-21:00pm, Central London @maryamnamazie.bsky.social @veiledroses.bsky.social & Yasmine El Baramawy discuss Ramadan and its impact on women's rights, health and bodily autonomy. Organised by One Law for All and Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain. tinyurl.com/rjuftztt

For #IWD2025 Public Lecture: @MaryamNamazie on Confronting Identity Politics 7 March 2025, 17:30-20:00pm. London Metropolitan University @SBSisters & Child & Woman Abuse Studies Unit Event with Global Diversities & Inequalities Research Centre tinyurl.com/y9rskcaw

For #IWD2025: Gender Apartheid: A Crime Against Humanity 6 March, 14:00, Houses of Parliament We join to show solidarity with courageous women in Afghanistan, Iran and elsewhere & call for #genderapartheid to be recognised as crime against humanity. tinyurl.com/2f87f649

My interview with L'ISLAM SPIEGATO DA UN CANE: DALL’IRAN AI TRIBUNALI DELLA SHARIA IN UK: LA BATTAGLIA DI MARYAM NAMAZIE PER LE DONNE, 31 January 2025 In Italian. English to follow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w1v...

A woman in Tehran, shouting 'eat shit' and 'none of your business' in nude protest on top of police car. Nudity in woman's own hands as protest represents the rage of women against Islamic regime of Iran's hatred of women and their bodies. Women's bodies against misogyny.

You wear it Ahmed al-Sharaa! It is ‘my personal freedom’* says Minister of Vice. Men are 'pearls,' covered, secure, pious, unscathed. #HijabSilences #NoHijabDay #WorldHijabDay * Syria’s president on telling a woman to cover her hair for photo.

NO HIJAB DAY: LET MEN WEAR IT! 1 Feb #WorldHijabDay #ExMuslimsInternational calls on men to wear #hijab 4 #NoHijabDay #hijabsilences: tinyurl.com/3cycym94 I explain why: tinyurl.com/yp3b8fwf @fariborzpooya.bsky.social joins call. What a 'pearl:' covered secure, pious, unscathed and reverent.

NO HIJAB DAY: LET MEN WEAR IT! On 1 Feb #WorldHijabDay #ExMuslimsInternational calls on men to wear #hijab for #NoHijabDay using #hijabsilences. tinyurl.com/3cycym94 @maryamnamazie explains why this is act confronting misogyny in in @thefreethinkermag.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yp3b8fwf

Tomorrow is World Hijab Day - and No Hijab Day. @maryamnamazie.bsky.social writes about the need to confront the misogyny inherent in the idea and practice of the hijab - and how you can join in and show solidarity on social media tomorrow. #HijabSilences freethinker.co.uk/2025/01/no-h...

LA RIVOLUZIONE IRANIANA E ALTRE STORIE CON MARYAM NAMAZIE - COMING SOON! Canale YouTube ufficiale di Nero, il cane che ti spiega l'Islam. Podcast che esamina le scritture in ottica critica e laica. www.youtube.com/shorts/gQ9Id...

I have joined 650 women and women’s groups to call for a democratic Syria based on women’s freedom Now is the time to strengthen the democratic forces in the Middle East & to stand with the women fighting for freedom, peace and democracy in Syria! tinyurl.com/m3z785pu

What Maryam says.

Or even if you don't wear one, put one on a man. Or indeed, maybe men could put one on themselves!

Ex-Muslims International: Take off your Hijab & Put it on a Man #NoHijabDay on 1 February responds to #WorldHijabDay to illuminate the coercive and oppressive realities of the hijab as a pillar of sex apartheid and a war on women. #NoHijabDay #HijabSilences ex-muslims.international/events/no-hi...

Stop execution of #VarishehMoradi #Pakhshan_Azizi, Kurdish women activists who have been sentenced to death as part of war against women & people following #WomanLifeFreedom revolution in Iran. see other statements also by Fariborz Pooya tinyurl.com/yj277332 by Keyvan Javid

بیانیه مشترک فعالان جنبش زنان و حامیان انقلاب زن زندگی آزادی از داخل و خارج کشور در اعتراض به حکم اعدام #پخشان_عزیزی و سایر احکام اعدام tinyurl.com/yknz9uws

Southall Black Sisters, One Law for All & Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain provided evidence to Women & Equalities Committee’s session on Gendered Islamophobia challenging framing of Islamophobia due to its impact on critiques of religion & disjoin from other forms of racism. tinyurl.com/43z9ahcy

The right to blasphemy, a cornerstone of free expression & democratic societies, is universal human right & demand. It’s not limited to or dependant on one’s ‘identity’ or lottery of birth. In fact, it matters most to those living under totalitarian & theocratic states. #thankyouCharlie #RireDeDieu

Happy New Year dear friends, Hoping for a better year and world in the new year. ❤️

Ex-Muslims International condemns Taleb Al Abdulmohsen heinous #Magdeburg #christmasmarket violent attack, offers condolences & stands against hate, affirming commitment to human rights, including immigrant rights & the shared humanity that unites us all. tinyurl.com/529jykjj

Happy Shab e Yalda ❤️ . Zagros Percussion Band گروه دفنوازان زاگرس —————————————— • Tan Tan-e Ra تَنْ تَنِ را Composer: • Zanyar Hesami ————————————— Group Leaders: • Sara Fotros • Zanyar Hesami @sarafotros.daf @zanyarhesami

“When the law is fundamentally and from the start discriminatory against women, then you're not going to get justice for women.” “A woman’s testimony is half that of a man’s” in #Shariacourts across the #UK, says One Law for All campaign founder Maryam Namazie in interview with Times Radio.

Feminism & Religion Incompatible Debate at Cambridge Union. Photos by William Blakesley-Herbert You can see it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtLb... You can read the speech here in The Freethinker freethinker.co.uk/2024/11/femi... Farsi: فمینیسم و دین ناسازگارند maryamnamazie.com/femrelpersian/

So true // @maryamnamazie.bsky.social This House Believes Feminism Is Incompatible With Religion www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtLb...

On #HumanRightsDay2024 we rage against #SexApartheid #GenderApartheid in #Iran #Afghanistan Segregation based on sex like that based on race is humiliating. It's dehumanising. It kills. It is a crime against humanity. #SexApartheidKills #SexApartheidHumiliates

#روز_حقوق_بشر علیه #آپارتاید_جنسی در #ایران #افغانستان جدا سازی بر اساس جنسی مانند جدا سازی بر اساس نژاد، تحقیرآمیز است. غیرانسانی است. می کشد. جنایت علیه بشریت است. آپارتاید_جنسی_می_کشد آپارتاید_جنسی_تحقیرآمیز_است

On #HumanRightsDay2024 we rage against #SexApartheid #GenderApartheid in #Iran #Afghanistan Segregation based on sex like that based on race is humiliating. It's dehumanising. It kills. It is a crime against humanity. #SexApartheidKills #SexApartheidHumiliates

We demand #endapostophobia: fear, hatred, discrimination against apostates. Join us with your own stories/ experiences. Let me begin: #EndApostophobiaBecause it we shouldn't have to face death threats & shunning for leaving Islam. #فوبيا_الردة #نه_به_مرتد_فوبیا #ExMuslimAwarenessMonth

December is #ExMuslimAwarenessMonth #ExMuslims face #Apostophobia - threats of violence, imprisonment, even death for leaving Islam. Leaving religion is a human right. Join campaign #EndApostophobia with your own messages of solidarity. #فوبيا_الردة #نه_به_مرتد_فوبیا

Am in Reggio Emilia for Laicita Festival. Will speak on #WomanLifeFreedom tomorrow.