“Because the state has enlisted itself to regulate morality and behavior, any deviation from the imposed social order is an inherent form of dissent,” writes Leili Kamali PO ’29. “As the war goes on, the biggest setback of all goes unrecognized – by bombing Iran, Trump is destroying and devaluing a decades-long movement of defiance that Iranians have been building all by themselves.”
Tag: resistance
Lost in Translation: Women & the language of liberation
In the wake of the presidential election, Claire Welch SC ’27 discusses the politics of language. Making references to the witches of 1970s Italy and a secret language in Hunan, Welch posits language as a tool towards liberation.