Kurdish men in drag promote feminism in the region
Last April, images of Kurdish men dressed in drag started making the rounds on Facebook.The campaign, called Kurd Men for Equality, featured men proudly swathed in the colorful garb traditional among Kurdish women. The subjects -- young, old, moustachioed, bespectacled -- were making a statement that was at once political and feminist, proving that in the Kurdish community, the two often go hand in hand.
"It's a political move against the Iranian regime, and the regime happens to be oppressive, to Kurds and to women -- not just Kurdish women but all women."
The campaign, which received over 17,000 Facebook "likes", and, according to the site, the endorsement of American actress Rosario Dawson, was the brainchild of two male feminists, Masoud Fathi and Dler Kamangar.
The campaign, which received over 17,000 Facebook "likes", and, according to the site, the endorsement of American actress Rosario Dawson, was the brainchild of two male feminists, Masoud Fathi and Dler Kamangar.
The real "war on women" is in the Middle East, and on many women from the Middle East, who even live in western countries. Which is why its embarrassing,shameful, and phony seeing white American privleged females, prance about talking about war on women, yet stay silent about what women in the Middle East go through, or when a woman they don't politically agree with, is called vile misogynistic things, or have death and rape threats thrown at her.
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