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In the Iranian capital, women let their hair down and residents gather in cafes to foment strikes and acts of resistance. “Liberation” has collected testimonies that paint the portrait of a city profoundly transformed in three months.
She walks. Straight ahead of her, chin up, arms dangling. In front of the yellow taxis of Tehran, hurrying at the red light, she crosses the street and her step remains calm. On her shoulders, her long brown hair floats freely. She walks, determined. She is not alone, no longer alone. Like Nasrin, 22, there are thousands of them who walk the streets of Tehran every day with their hair in the wind. Loose, gathered in a high ponytail – hairstyle prohibited in 2010 in Iran – or cut short, a sign of mourning or revolt in the Persian tradition. Their decision, their choice, their life.
“These days, it feels more like Istanbul than the Tehran of recent years. In the streets, we come across more and more women with their hair uncovered, and fewer and fewer veiled women. says Nasrin (1), who believes that they are now “regarding seven out of ten women go out without a headscarf”. It is no longer rare to come across an incongruous couple, a woman dressed in a chador accompanied by her teenage or young adult daughter. Mother and daughter walk, hand in hand, one veiled, the other not and “It’s as if the first said to the second ‘look, I’m here, I support you, I accompany you'”, says Nasrin.
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