Networked Resistance: Personal Narratives and Digital Solidarity in the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement
This research project explores how Iranian women use digital platforms to create powerful counter archives through personal narratives during the Woman, Life, Freedom movement. Following Mahsa Amini’s death in September 2022, these digital testimonies transformed individual acts of resistance into a collective political movement that transcended national boundaries. The project examines how personal narratives function as both social process and political praxis and how the digitalization of personal narratives acts as a challenge to state control of information while simultaneously fostering global solidarity networks. By tracing the evolution of Iranian women’s resistance from early post-revolutionary protests to contemporary digital activism, this research situates the Woman, Life, Freedom movement within a historical continuum of women’s resistance in Iran. This project argues that digital counter archives represent a significant progression in how marginalized groups resist dominant narratives, demonstrating how personal experiences shared in digital spaces can simultaneously serve as documentation, political resistance, and catalysts for transnational solidarity.
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