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"Creating Woman, Life, Freedom was about taking action through art.
“At the start I was reposting on Instagram, which gave me the good conscience that I was doing something, but actually it was nothing,” she says.
“The only thing I can do is cultural work. (…)
This book is a message to the Iranian people to say, listen, you are not alone.” (...)
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“Today’s youth has said, ‘Fuck it, we don’t want to live that way: inside and outside, I want to be me.’ (...)
The book is also about exposing the mechanisms of state violence.
Since traditional media can’t get access to tell the story on the ground, and the small everyday acts of personal protest have dropped out of international headlines, the authors wanted to make them real through drawings. (...)
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"The book was about giving people an insight into “something huge that’s going on.
Every single thing we are talking about: the war in Ukraine, Gaza, Houthis in the Red Sea – all of that is related to what is happening in Iran.”
She feels Iran’s influence on geopolitics is like an octopus, with the west always grappling.(...)
“actually they are just arms, the head is what is happening in Iran itself”.(...)
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