Tag: Nude Photo Revolutionary Calendar
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What I may do with my body
Greta Christina has responded to Azar Majedi’s absurd attack on the Nude Photo Revolutionary Calendar. If you recall, I responded to her recently as well. She says: Now. It is certainly the case that my choice to participate in this calendar was made in the context of a sexist culture: a culture that treats women…
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April 2012
April 2012 is here – the first month of the Nude Photo Revolutionary Calendar. The photo is of mother and daughter Anne Baker and Poppy Wilson St. James. Mother Anne Baker says she joined the ‘scream’ and Nude Photo Revolutionary Calendar because ‘men in frocks constrain, control and intimidate women the world over in the…
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Dim-witted idiocy or revolutionary? In defence of nude protest
Azar Majedi of the Organisation of Women’s Liberation – Iran has attacked the Nude Photo Revolutionary Calendar and supporting video of Iranian women as being similar to the tabloids (namely the Sun’s page 3), ‘dim-witted idiocy’ and ‘buffoonery’ and Golshifteh Farahani’s nudity as ‘commercial’ whilst supporting Egyptian blogger Aliaa Magda Elmahdy’s nudity. In her attacks…
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Talking to Maryam Namazie: Stripping for Iran
In an interview with Now Lebanon published today I say: It was difficult to find women for the calendar; many of those who had originally agreed to do it pulled out for various reasons, including because they couldn’t do full frontal nudity in keeping with Aliaa’s original photo. Also initially I had decided to include…
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I am not someone’s honour…
Here’s another photo from Iran via Kian Azar in support of the Nude Photo Revolutionary Calendar and corresponding video. The signs on the wall say: ‘No to Hejab’, ‘I am not someone’s honour’, ‘Women=Men’, ‘No to Stoning’, ‘Down with the Islamic Republic of Iran’, and what seems to say ‘No to gender apartheid’. The woman…
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To those that continue to blame the patriarchy, move on
Sonya JF Barnett, the co-founder of SlutWalk and the designer of the Nude Photo Revolutionary Calendar has a brilliant piece on the calendar here. It starts: I’ve gotten incredibly tired of people blaming everything I do on my gullible acceptance of “The Patriarchy”. She goes on to say about the Nude Photo Revolutionary Calendar: Created…
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Nude Photo Revolutionary Calendar and Video in the Media
The Nude Photo Revolutionary Calendar and its corresponding video have received extensive media coverage. Here are some of them: Naakte feministen zenden schokgolf door Midden-Oosten, Trouw, 22 February 2013 [external link] Nagie kobiety-rewolucjonistki w kalendarzu. “Dlaczego? Bo możemy!”, SwiatOBrazu, 13 February 2013 [external link] Pierwszy Światowy Dzień Hidżabu, Maryam Namazie quoted on World Hijab Day,…
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Pour défendre la protestation nue
IN FRENCH ON NUDE PHOTO REVOLUTIONARY CALENDAR Voici une interview que j’ai faite avec NOW Libanon ce dimanche au sujet du Calendrier révolutionnaire de photos nues et la réponse à l’attaque de Azar Majedi contre le calendrier et une vidéo de soutien intitulée « Idiotie stupide ou révolutionnaire : Pour défendre la protestation nue ». Parler…
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Iranians in Iran join Nude Photo Revolutionary Calendar
Young members of the Worker-communist Party of Iran who live in Iran have joined the scream! Since they would be executed for this act, their faces are covered with slogans saying ‘Long Live Women’s Freedom’, ‘No to Hejab’, ‘No to Islamic Rule’, ‘No to Gender Discrimination’ and ‘No to Islamic Reaction’. They have printed the…
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Nude Photo Revolutionary Calendar is Here!
To download the Nude Photo Revolutionary Calendar, click here. En Francais تقویم انقلابیون برهنه On 8 March 2012 International Women’s Day, the Nude Photo Revolutionaries Calendar was launched in homage to Egyptian atheist, student and blogger Aliaa Magda Elmahdy who posted a nude photo of herself, announcing the post on Twitter under the hashtag, #NudePhotoRevolutionary.…
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The calendar is not the same as tabloids like the Sun
Azar Majedi of the Organisation of Women’s Liberation in Iran has just published a piece in Persian attacking the Nude Revolutionary Calendar and the video of Iranian women supporting it as ‘absurd caricatures’ of Aliaa Magda Elmahdy and Golshifteh Farhani’s nudity and attempts at ‘self-promotion’, ‘dim-witted idiocy’ and acts of ‘buffoonery’. She likens the Calendar…
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Iranian women in support of the Nude Photo Revolutionary Calendar
See a video of Iranian women supporting the Nude Photo Revolutionary Calender here.