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Woman, Life, Freedom! - San Francisco Girls Chorus

The piece “Woman! Life! Freedom!” by Sahba Aminikia commissioned by and written for the San Francisco Girls Chorus led by Artistic Director Valérie Sainte-Agathe is a protest song, an homage to Iranian women and this magnificent social movement towards the liberation of women in Iran. “Woman, Life, Freedom” is a slogan that originated within the women-led Kurdish movements. However, after the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman who died in a hospital in Tehran, Iran under suspicious circumstances, this slogan became the name of the Iranian women’s movement after September 2022. Prior to her death, Mahsa was detained by Tehran’s morality police for failing to properly cover her hair. Through the protests since then, 551 protestors were killed by security forces, including 502 men, 49 women, and 68 children in 26 provinces out of 31 provinces in Iran. The women’s rights movement in Iran was originally initiated in the mid-19th century. However, the first official social movement emerged in 1910 after the Iranian constitutional revolution, leading to the establishment of societies and magazines shortly after, which continues until today. It includes a poem by the 14th-century Persian poet Hafez; Sagi, make our bowl glow with the light of wine. Minstrel, sing how the world has gone our way. You, unaware of our constant drinking’s sweetness, In the bowl we have seen the reflection of the friend’s cheek! He never dies whose heart is alive with love: Our persistence is recorded in the register of the Cosmos. Translation by: Peter Avery