RENING

“If you want to free the world, look at the violence hidden in language.”

This sentence by Ariel Dorfman opened a path for me. Through my research, I came to understand that in order to heal the historical violence inflicted upon the female body, we must reverse the path we have taken. This return led me to the myth of Anahita, the goddess of water—a figure who washes and purifies. 

Through her, the female body emerges from history carrying a lighter burden. These works address how Iranian people’s bodies have historically been forced to carry harsh, raw ideologies imposed by an oppressive tyranny. These ideologies manifest as moral commands written onto the bodies of cities and becoming the bodies of women.

This is the most sincere point I could point at, for one gol and that’s unifying.