Sorry, I don’t know the context. Did she do this as a protest do draw attention to women’s rights in Iran? If so, this drawing seems in support, depicting her as towering over her surroundings, and doesn’t seem particularly sexualised.
The Iranian story is that she suffered a breakdown from stress and anxiety. The immediate western story was that she was doing this as protest after the police took her hijab or told her to put one on, they don’t seem to know either.
It is meant to be in support of her protest following the western line but there’s also a reason they latch onto half naked protestors and depict them preferably. If she had protested another way she would have been a blip in the noise, like the one guy army who shows up to a Chinese bridge every weekend with a sign about whatever.
The Iranian story is that she suffered a breakdown from stress and anxiety. The immediate western story was that she was doing this as protest after the police took her hijab or told her to put one on, they don’t seem to know either.
Spivak talks about this in Can the Subaltern Speak. She can conform to islamist misogyny or ‘liberate’ through western sexualisation. But she can never express herself outside of these opresssive paradigms.
Sorry, I don’t know the context. Did she do this as a protest do draw attention to women’s rights in Iran? If so, this drawing seems in support, depicting her as towering over her surroundings, and doesn’t seem particularly sexualised.
The Iranian story is that she suffered a breakdown from stress and anxiety. The immediate western story was that she was doing this as protest after the police took her hijab or told her to put one on, they don’t seem to know either.
It is meant to be in support of her protest following the western line but there’s also a reason they latch onto half naked protestors and depict them preferably. If she had protested another way she would have been a blip in the noise, like the one guy army who shows up to a Chinese bridge every weekend with a sign about whatever.
I see, thank you for the explanation comrade. It’s despicable to use someones breakdown for propaganda.
Spivak talks about this in Can the Subaltern Speak. She can conform to islamist misogyny or ‘liberate’ through western sexualisation. But she can never express herself outside of these opresssive paradigms.