Just chopped my hair off for #opiran. Here’s why.

Some time back i was added to a group chat on twitter for NFT artists. I didn’t know that most of them were Iranian girls. When #mahsaamini happened, all I saw in the group chat was. Are you alive. I m alive. I have no internet. I can’t find my sister. I can’t find my bf. My friend got shot.

I am not close to any of them. All we say to each other is Gm gn. Maybe we retweet each other’s tweets.

Also I m the stiffest silo you’ll ever meet. I never taken any side. I pride myself on being neutral. Even when I was canceled, I was neutral. I m just in my world, isolated. Not giving a fuck.

Anyway when it happened I got depressed, angry, helpless, sad. My friend would cry in twitter spaces and I would cry with her. Some would tell me their 2 yo girl was shot. Some mornings I wake up to tweets of dead Iranian girls.

Today I gave a talk to a bunch of female artists at University of Sharjah. UAE. It wasn’t easy for me.

Suddenly I was overwhelmed with empathy and anger. Why is people ignoring my tweets to help them.

Can u imagine. One group chat - Iranian girls risking death by going to protest. Another group chat- Russians being mobilized to kill relatives in Ukraine or go to prison.

This bleak outlook leaked to my artwork and I just couldn’t make pretty girls art. What the fuck for.

There’s this movement going on, people cutting hair to support Iran. It’s pointless, it doesn’t help.

But for the first time I m picking a side.

#betheirvoice

#grateful #blessed #WORTHIT

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