Behnaz Amani

The Pulse of Resistance: Beating Beneath Black Veils

The Pulse of Resistance: Beating Beneath Black Veils

Hey, you who sit on the shore, merry and bright! A soul in the water surrenders to night. One there is, flailing with desperate hand, On this fierce, dark, and weighty sea, as you apprehend.…Tell me, at what moment should I say? A soul in the water throws life...

Women’s Body Under Secondary Colonialism 

Women’s Body Under Secondary Colonialism 

This is Behnaz Amani, one of the political prisoners of Iran’s recent revolt, “Woman, Life, Freedom”. I’ve been in Gharchak prison for 46 days and have seen things which make me wonder and ponder upon the concept of the female body and capitalism and how the state can...