Originially published on Amanda Gelender's Medium Blog.
As I write this, the wheels of genocide are turning. As I write this, I am preparing for Shabbat.
When I see Gaza, I see my own people languishing in concentration camps. I see a world that has turned its back on us, letting us be slaughtered en masse because we aren’t quite human enough.
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She was considered beautiful in the eyes of the common man, but she believed her womanly seduction outweighed her beauty. Yet she would feel guilty as soon as she turned on her charm. First she would pretend she had done nothing wrong, but then she would be gripped by the cardinal sin of being a woman, seeing herself as the prime suspect in all the romantic entanglements in her life. As soon as she was arrested at her father-in-law's in Birjand, the first and most definitive thing she uttered were the words "I am innocent."
—from "Ten Minutes," Volume 64, Issue 4 (Winter 2023)
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We published Kayhan Irani's performance piece in the winter 2023 issue, WOMAN: Revisited. Titled "There Is a Portal," you can find the full multimedia digital experience here.
To celebrate the launch of our Woman:Revisited, an issue looking at womanhood and femininity 50 years after MR first published an issue on the theme, we hosted a reading with editor Shailja Patel and Zoe Tuck, and contributors Carole DeSanti and Kayhan Irani.
