on the women using social media platforms to find finance and discrimination so stay tuned for that i'll be back with more of the latest news and headlines at the top of the hour i'm called aspen thanks for watching. but you know this is you know 5 minutes 4 minutes yeah. passing power and beauty. pageant all.

the feats in the pantheon of the great tenors certainly he's one for the ages. but. because the tenor for the ages starts july 10th on t.w. . shift special digital warriors women using social media to help change the world. today is up challenge as the job rules in iraq. there is a day in the war in iraq about my lifestyle. they have guns and what that's the how facebook true church instagram and our social media they cannot keep those people side. that's something that i never lose hope.

it's a punishable crime which are beyond veiled in public according to the laws sharia laws in iran you get lashes you get jailed and fined but more important than this you won't be allowed to get an education from the age of 7 if you take off your headscarf you won't be allowed to get a job. you won't be allowed to live in your own country.

was. this great and i am going to come to a young child for i want to play them again yes that. can. be. my campaign was born from a simple picture. it was a picture of me wrong thing in a beauty food streets in london it was a spring maybe the trees were full of blossoms and i wrote a caption on my picture that every time when i wrong in a free country and i feel the wind through my hair it just reminds me of the time when my hair was like a hostage in the hands of the reigning government. i

also women whether they want to share their pictures with me so the moment of freedom with me i was bombarded by pictures from women inside iran being unveiled. so i created my stealthy freedom page on facebook bush now has more than a 1000000 followers on instagram more than a 1000000 followers and it's all about freedom it's all about dignity it's all about choice. i groff. which

is closed. our kitchen in the village are designed for women it's shorter because women are shorter than men so. i remember i used to say to my brother i know this is short for you but there is a church said 1000 watch the bishop said that shows that i started my feminist movements my feminist revolution from my kitchen. that is important for women just to start. being a rebel. in our house. in our village we didn't have toilets in our house we have outhouse. and in the

darkness we had to go out. my mother used to say that the darkness is a monster a shake us black demon that feeds on your fear. if you're scared of it then the shadow groups big and it will envelop you and swallow you whole. open your eyes white as white as possible she did me when i was a young girl stare into the darkness and the shadows will disappear never be afraid of the darkness but stare it down. 2 2 my mother never had the chance to go to school university never she's not even able to read and write but to me she's the true feminist. my father has stopped talking to me he doesn't support the things that i'm against

islam i'm against my own country and the chiang mai country but i think these are all happening just because you know the the governor really brainwashed like people like my father otherwise my father loves me. when i was a student i got kicked out from high school just because of my opinion and then i became a journalist parliamentary journalist i got kicked out from the amp is just because i exposed the crush and i became a call of miss then again because i criticized the president of iran it was just a week before the controversial election 2009 my car got the wind allies in iraq and out 2 of my journalistic car was on there my vehicle real so that was a message for me that you know it's going to happen to us was so i decided just you know leave the country 2 2. now i am here and i'm not going to keep silent.

i launched myself a freedom but after 3 years it was everywhere so like the president of iran knew about it talked about it all the media are on the war the media inside iran the rein in the state clerics and i thought oh my god now this is the time we have to shift the online movement to something offline these people need to identify each other so in 2017 i decided to actually you know pick and they pick a color and help these people to identify each other in public.

these run on white ones based there are only soldiers only warriors i called it one person the inspiration because they never have. permission to take this. they will be shot they will be you know into prison they will be torture but they are brave they found a way to protest against oppression. from

the. oh. yes what does she know. that i'm going to come enjoy you know i'm going to need. some remark about us headed out and i have heard that the british and other will. now go to ok bye. it's not leading the campaign it's why then leading the campaign and i am only the voice. profoundly for. this is the time men should get involved in women's movement so i created another campaign called the many in. the government all want to control the society because they know that this

generation is not going to keep silent day found social media as an alternative media should express themselves to be loud and to break the censorship that is what the social media itself is a threat for islamic republic of iran so they try to block it because they see this is the main battleground and they don't want to lose control. system. but on the one. question i have. oh yeah. back when i was. suddenly i was not your father just simply by me it's not getting on someone because of your biased it. was hard but a lot are you sure they're ready to go like this on your little yes i shot realize this is a volatile fish but then they come out of marvel i'm caught about it

a little you got a lot of them are going to say look yes you know. like this is a big show actually in this show i give the platform to women inside iraq i mean mostly women it's about you know people inside iran who can use their camera and be their own voices be they or need to be on sunday video to make. i feel like i'm hogging the whole iran you know they picked out from my country but they couldn't take iran out of me so now social media and this show is my reading though toward iran. under the shah. dance the shah of course i am scared of receiving a lot of death threats specially when i see the government attack me through cyber are me calling me a prostitute calling me ugly the agent of cia agent of m i 6 this kind of things

actually from to beginning it was kind of hurting me but not now not anymore this is are you ready. i have. a big one day many of. my dream is just.

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