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Two Poems on the Poetry Feast December 2016
Tag: women
Live Encounters (October): Poems from Nasrin
Two poems from Nasrin Parvaz on Live Encounters October issue
Beneath the Narcissus: A Woman’s Experience of Iranian Prisons and Beyond
Speech in 20th Anniversary of Women Against Pit Closures
In Solidarity with women against pit closures
Struggle against Islamic regime in Iran
In 1984, I was in an Islamic prison in Iran when I saw on TV miners fighting with police and their horses in the UK. The Islamic regime broadcasted the brutality of Thatcher’s regime in suppressing the miners’ movement so that people would see that it is not only the Islamic regime that crushes working class movements. Continue reading Speech in 20th Anniversary of Women Against Pit Closures
A War Against Womanhood
Last week I went to the Whittington Hospital in London. I waited in the reception room for my turn. A mother and her daughter were there waiting. Both of them were veiled and I saw my own childhood in this woman’s child. Continue reading A War Against Womanhood