Woman* Life Freedom Collective Hamburg

The Jinas Revolution in Iran started back in September 2022. Since then, a number of things have changed: Protest strikes and civil disobedience in recent months have changed not only power structures but also the reality of people's lives to the point of no return from this moment. And as we experience the current protests, we find ourselves in collective narratives of the present within which we remember the past. If we view history as a hegemonic distortion of events that "happened," then the "narratives" can be understood as tools with which we can intervene in history and rewrite it over and over again. In this way, we can disrupt the established discourse of history by rewriting the past and the present. Each narrative of "what happened" offers the possibility of creating different versions about the past and the future. The embodied experiences, the written words can be the weapons in this war of narratives.

In this lecture performance by and with Tanasgol Sabbagh, Sanaz Azimipour and Mahtab Sabetara, the first 100 days of the Jinas Revolution are discovered and understood through narratives and literature. The texts presented were collected through various channels, both oral and written.

• Tanasgol Sabbagh writes stage literature and poetry. For the past ten years she has performed spoken word texts on countless stages in German-speaking countries, including Volksbühne Berlin, Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Elbphilharmonie. Her texts have appeared in anthologies and magazines and have been staged in various stage and video formats (most recently Solothurner Literaturtage, Hellerau - European Center for the Arts, Zeit Online). She is a founding member of the artist* collective parallelgesellschaft and the event series of the same name in Berlin. She is also committed to promoting young literary and leads writing workshops for young people and schoolchildren. Tanasgol lives in Berlin.
• Mahtab Sabetara is an activist and freelance musician. She is part of the Woman* Life Freedom collective and has experience with project management.
• Sanaz Azimipour is an activist, author, speaker and co-founder of the campaign for the right to vote for all "Nicht Ohne Uns 14 Prozent" and "MigLoom e.V.". Her work focuses on transnational movements, political participation and social injustice.