Sheila Vand Instagram – 🥹 the power of sisterhood ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
@rosvamagazine is one of my favorite digital spaces and creative communities. It feels so cozy in my heart to be understood by people I actually admire and respect. Sometimes I get caught up in the tiny handful of trolls who aren’t anywhere near my level, allowing their lowness to bring me down. And then, like clockwork, my tribe shows up to uplift me and remind me that I am exactly what I am meant to be. My ancestors are always always always protecting me too. They are the fire that is my guiding light.
Rage is an important activator. Rage can destroy our tendency to be apathetic or to ignore difficult things. But love can be an activator too. Remembering who we are fighting for, and not just who we are fighting against, is important too. For women, for life, for freedom. Anyone who is attacking Iranian women, out here trying to censor Iranian women and our freedom of thought and speech, should consider if they’re really fighting for Iranian women. Every community has its clowns. Iranians are no exception. We want so badly to be united in solidarity that we sometimes let these clowns in. But why stay at the circus, when the real revolution is going on outside. We’re not here to save the clowns. We’re here to save the queens.
This gathering of Iranian women (which you can watch over at @rosvamagazine ), who are all so creative and bursting with life, reminded me that I am seen and the work I do is appreciated by those I do it all for. Gahhh what a giant mehmooni of love happening in my heart right now 🥰🥰🥰
I will never stop fighting to destroy our oppressors, but I will never stop fighting to create art and love tooooo. They go together! 💪
PS these videos have been edited in this choppy, jagged way as a tool to protect us from those who target us for our thoughts and words. We don’t enjoy this type of censorship, but we’d rather do it to ourselves than have others force it on us. And every oppressed/targeted group of peoples knows full well, you gotta do what you gotta do to stay safe while you fight. Until freedom. | Posted on 07/Apr/2023 03:27:22
