Say her name. Say their names
for me, hair over my ears = too long!! My hair is eight weeks past its last cut. It is wild and bushy, and I am the only one who cares. I can do what I like with the hair on my head. On Saturday, I attended a rally in support of the WOMAN * LIFE * FREEDOM movement in Iran that marked the one-year anniversary of the death-in-police-custody of Mahsa Amini , a young woman arrested by that country’s morality police for allegedly not covering her hair appropriately. At the rally, the local Iranian community leader made a statement and closed by asking us to “say her name”, so we replied, three times, chanting her name MAHSA AMINI . It was a powerful way to pay tribute to this woman, silenced by forces that seek to restrict and restrain women’s freedoms in the 21st century. Say her name The first time I was in a crowd rallying in support of a missing female was in the early 1980s, in Edmonton. Six-year-old Tania Marie Murrell had been abducted, a crime that remains unsolved to this day. We