The stranger in me is : MY INTERNAL CENSORSHIP
This piece represents the oppression that Iranian people face by the Islamic Republic of Iran. An oppression that creates holes in the souls of the protesters, humiliating and silencing them, and then hanging them, even before piercing their bodies through the bullets that the Iranian corps shoot at them, extinguishing the revolutionary fire at every dawn. The family becomes an integral part of this state censorship, restraining the spirit of rebellion of the children. Censoring and silencing them in order to allow them to live longer and not make them sacrificial victims of a forgotten freedom. But despite all this, in the dirt there is light, represented by the slogan outside that reads “zan, zendegi, azadi”, “woman, life, freedom”.
I’m Hasti Naddafi.
I act to survive.
I write to breathe.
And to change the world, I love.
