Parvin Ardalan: Iranian feminist activist awarded.
Last month Parvin Ardalan, a famous Iranian feminist activist, was given the Olaf Palme prize for outstanding achievement. She was however banned from leaving the country to accept the award. Instead she left a pre-recorded message. We are late to this-but enjoy.
Some of those issues sounds familiar don't they?
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What a brave and courageous woman. She's my heroine.
When this happened this was front-page news in Sweden for something like a week, almost sparking an international incident between Iran and Sweden. Excerpts from that video ran on the evening news.
I don't know if this is common knowledge in the US, but for those of you who don't know: Olof Palme was an extremely forceful and very radical Swedish Prime Minister, who was assassinated in 1986. He was extremely critical of things like the Vietnam War and apartheid, and pretty much hated all over the world for it. For instance, when he appeared in a protest against Vietnam, the US temporarily recalled their ambassador. I've never heard anyone speak so powerfully in my life, and even 22 years after his death I'm still almost moved to tears by some of his speeches. He was a leader on the scale of Martin Luther King, or Robert Kennedy. He was that guy.
Thank you for sharing this! I was incredibly moved by her humility and her idea of global sisterhood.
At the risk of sounding a bit shallow, a lot of the things she talked about reminded me of the situations depicted in Persepolis, an autobiographical account of one Iranian woman's childhood in comic book/animated film form. Both the graphic novel and the film do an excellent of connecting historical change to personal experience. (There's also an excellent comic book sequel to Persepolis that's called Embroideries).
Thank you so much for this! =)
She is an inspiration and a shero to me! What grace and strength she emits to all of us!
I am looking Parvin Ardalan up to find out more about her. What a woman.