Reposted by Fatemeh EkhtesariDocumenting Gender Apartheid @genderapartheid.no · 17/03/2025In Iran music, singing, and dancing are all subject to rules to exclude women. This is one of the many examples of Gender Apartheid in Iran. Follow us on YouTube for more videos - youtube.com/@genderapart... #genderapartheid #womensrights #iran 171 7
Reposted by Fatemeh EkhtesariDocumenting Gender Apartheid @genderapartheid.no · 21/03/2025Share the story of Parastoo Ahmadi, who pushed back against gender apartheid. youtu.be/hUOpu-syCiM #GenderApartheid #parastooahmadi #iranmusicyoutu.beParastoo Ahmadi - Iranian Musician - Gender Apartheid - Karvansara ConcertYouTube video by Documenting Gender Apartheid 011 1
Reposted by Fatemeh EkhtesariFiona Larkin @fionalarkin.bsky.social · 19/12/2024I’m a day late, but this is a gem from @samueltongue.bsky.social in the Advent calendar raising funds for Medicine sans Frontieres created by @annierutherford.bsky.social 🎄 1148 14
Fatemeh Ekhtesari @ekhtesari.com · 20/12/2024I sometimes look at this bluesky and ask myself, isn't it gray these days? 020 2
Fatemeh Ekhtesari @ekhtesari.com · 18/12/2024Two gilt and lacquered papier-mâché #book covers Mirza Aga Imami, Iran, 19th century 28.2 x 19.2 cm Each cover depicts pheasants with gold foliage on black, bordered by palmette scrolls on red. The reverse has a gold frame on red, with one signed in the lower right corner. #Persian #art #painting 010 1
Reposted by Fatemeh EkhtesariLiterary Pearls @literarypearls.bsky.social · 14/12/2024“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin 299363017565 36.3K
Reposted by Fatemeh EkhtesariAnders Heger @andersheger.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Bibliotekarene har alltid vært, og vil alltid være vår viktigste skanse mot stupiditet og autokrati. Men det blir bare synlig når tidene hardner.aftenposten.noSkeiv bok ble bedt fjernet fra skole: – Fikk kaffen i halsenArendal-rektor ba om fjerning av «Gender Queer» fra skolebiblioteket, etter kommunens anbefaling. Nå snur rektoren og bekager. 413925 139
Fatemeh Ekhtesari @ekhtesari.com · 09/12/2024With a changing key, you unlock the house where the snow of what’s silenced drifts. Just like the blood that bursts from Your eye or mouth or ear, so your key changes. Paul Celan #poetry #poem #translation 011 1
Fatemeh Ekhtesari @ekhtesari.com · 09/12/2024It is emotionally overwhelming and deeply painful to see the videos of release for political prisoners opposing a dictator like #Asad after many years of imprisonment. 020 2
Fatemeh Ekhtesari @ekhtesari.com · 06/12/2024It's amazing how Persian poetry has influenced other arts, including painting. You can often find verses next to a painting. Three #paintings ascribed to 'Abd Al-Hayy Astar Abadi, Circa 1370-80 - Two cranes standing in a pool - A heron landing - Two herons with ducks #Persian #Poetry #art 040 4
Fatemeh Ekhtesari @ekhtesari.com · 05/12/2024My madness and my fear have wide dead eyes and the steady gaze of fever... Georges Bataille #Poetry #poem 050 5
Reposted by Fatemeh EkhtesariSic Publishing @sicpublish.no · 04/12/2024Lillehammer, a UNESCO City of Literature, #ICORN city of refuge, Norwegian Literature Festival city, ...and our home. #Lillehammer #Norge #Norway 011 1
Reposted by Fatemeh EkhtesariNima Akbarpour 🔥 نیما @nima.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Just published a new blog post that's the written version of my podcast episode! 🎙️📖 Dive into the world of the most bizarre, useless, and overpriced mobile #apps you won't believe exist. It's a fun exploration of the quirkiest corners of the tech world. nima.medium.com/the-most-use...nima.medium.comThe Most Useless and Overpriced Mobile Apps You Won’t Believe ExistHave you ever scrolled through the app store and thought, “Who would actually download this?” Well, you’re not alone. Today, I want to take… 1125 12
Reposted by Fatemeh EkhtesariSic Publishing @sicpublish.no · 04/12/2024Released, but not free. #Iran #nargesmohammadi www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...theguardian.comIran releases Nobel peace laureate Mohammadi on medical leave, says lawyerTemporary release is inadequate, activist’s family and supporters say, urging her unconditional release 022 2
Reposted by Fatemeh EkhtesariSamuel Tongue @samueltongue.bsky.social · 04/12/2024This is so good. @ellafrears.bsky.social writes horror and satire and pathos and eros and real, real life and hallucinations into each good sentence 1204 20
Fatemeh Ekhtesari @ekhtesari.com · 04/12/2024My whole being is a dark chant which will carry you perpetuating you to the dawn of eternal growths and blossoming in this chant I sighed you, sighed in this chant I grafted you to the tree, to the water, to the fire. Forough Farrokhzad #poem #translation #persianpoetry 010 1
Fatemeh Ekhtesari @ekhtesari.com · 03/12/2024In many ways it was the same as you can't find what you are searching for when you don't know what it is, but somehow you spend days looking in all the wrong places hoping one day to remember. #David_Bowie #poetry #lyric 010 1
Fatemeh Ekhtesari @ekhtesari.com · 02/12/2024Sometimes I miss the Iran depicted in art, but then I remember it's not the full reality of that time. A large underglaze-painted pottery tile, Persia, circa 1880, rectangular, showing a musician, dancer, and figures under a flowering tree, with a floral border. #Persian #art #painting #blue 050 5
Fatemeh Ekhtesari @ekhtesari.com · 01/12/2024Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. Albert Einstein #war #MiddleEast 010 1
Fatemeh Ekhtesari @ekhtesari.com · 01/12/2024#Mehrah_AbdullahZadeh, a 27-year-old from Urmia, #Iran, has been sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court. He was arrested during the #WomanLifeFreedom protests and reportedly tortured in detention. His family is under pressure and threats from security forces to remain silent. 032 3
Reposted by Fatemeh EkhtesariSic Publishing @sicpublish.no · 29/11/2024Unequal access to #justice is one form of #genderapartheid. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...theguardian.comWomen arrested by Taliban for begging report rape and killings in Afghan jailsDraconian new laws allow mass incarceration of women and children forced to beg because of work ban 053 5
Fatemeh Ekhtesari @ekhtesari.com · 29/11/2024The worst thing was having doubts and the wonderful thing about being able to close your eyes and say God exists, or God does not exist, and believe it. Conversation in the Cathedral #MarioVargasLlosa #book #novel 000 0
Fatemeh Ekhtesari @ekhtesari.com · 29/11/2024مخفیست در گلوی تو چیزی مخفیست در سرم چمدانی تردید میکنی بروی یا.... ترجیح میدهم که بمانی #فاطمه_اختصاری 000 0
Fatemeh Ekhtesari @ekhtesari.com · 28/11/2024Album page with a seated couple in a landscape Date: circa 1640 Location: Iran, Isfahan Dimensions: 13.3 x 18.1 cm #Persian #Painting 010 1
Fatemeh Ekhtesari @ekhtesari.com · 26/11/2024Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship. Fight club #film 000 0
Fatemeh Ekhtesari @ekhtesari.com · 26/11/2024Et desperat menneske skriker, men skriket er ikke noe dikt. Arnulf Øverland 000 0
Fatemeh Ekhtesari @ekhtesari.com · 26/11/2024Sadegh Tabrizi b. 1938 Untitled signed S. Tabrizi oil on canvas 43 by 33.5 cm. Executed circa 1960s - 1970s. #Persian #painting #art 010 1
Fatemeh Ekhtesari @ekhtesari.com · 25/11/2024Poetry – but what is poetry anyway? More than one rickety answer has been given to this question. But I don’t know and don’t know and hold on to it, as to a saving bannister. Wisława Szymborska #poetry #poem 010 1
Fatemeh Ekhtesari @ekhtesari.com · 25/11/2024Langsomt og stykkevis plukker jeg Av meg alt jeg har på meg Under skjorta mi er det en slagmark Lager av våpen og krutt Naken som en begynnelse Naken som en blodig kniv Naken som et forbudt dikt Som diktet du leser nå Fatemeh Ekhtesari Av "hun er ikke kvinne" 111 1
Fatemeh Ekhtesari @ekhtesari.com · 25/11/2024Everybody who loved me or did not I kissed and left them all for you... 020 2
Fatemeh Ekhtesari @ekhtesari.com · 24/11/2024من زخمیام که خوب نخواهد شد یک جرم غیرقابل انکارم... فاطمه اختصاری 030 3
