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Reproductive Justice Initiative, Manna Mostaghim & Illustration: Luci Pina
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Manna Mostaghim is a researcher who examines the socio-political conditions that culminate in the provision of healthcare for disenfranchised minorities in the global North. Her work especially examines the role of race and gender in the provision of healthcare and health infrastructure. She has presented her original research at Oxford University and the London School of Economics.
The author, whose parents fled the Iranian regime after the 1979 revolution, talks about the current women-led protests in Iran.
Manna Mostaghim & Illustration: Christina Atik
In early August, black-and-white images of women I knew started appearing on my timeline with the hashtag #ChallengeAccepted and #WomenSupportingWomen. It seemed to be a nice but meaningless exercise to post a good selfie with a vague caption about feminine energy. I politely ignored the nominations directed towards me. I...
Manna Mostaghim & Illustration: Yuzhen Cai
Seven minutes. A trained medical professional can conduct an emergency birth in seven minutes. If a baby is not born in those seven minutes, oxygen deprivation and physical distress to the infant’s body can occur. The infant will have an increased chance of Cerebral Palsy, brain damage, blindness or death....
Naghmeh Teymourian-Yates was going to be a lawyer until a pamphlet was thrust into her letterbox telling her that she was going to die. In January 1979 she arrived in the UK as a nineteen-year-old waiting for the streets of Tehran to stop burning. By 1980, Naghmeh’s wait in London...
Manna Mostaghim, Luci Pina & Illustration: Dr. Krizun Loganathan
