Zan, Zindagi, Azaadi: Women, Life, Freedom

S﻿uffolk County Chapter of NOW.As the grassroots arm of the women’s movement, the National Organization for Women is dedicated to its multi-issue and multi-strategy approach to women’s rights, and is the largest organization of feminist grassroots activists in the United States. NOW has hundreds of chapters and hundreds of thousands of members and activists in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Since our founding in 1966, NOW’s purpose is to take action through intersectional grassroots activism to promote feminist ideals, lead societal change, eliminate discrimination, and achieve and protect the equal rights of all women and girls in all aspects of social, political, and economic life.

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NOW Suffolk presents Zan Zindagi Azaadi (Women, Life, Freedom) in support of Iranian women featuring Anna Kaplan and Rooja Mohassessy.

Zan Zindagi Azaadi is the rallying cry of the Iranian protests sparked when Mahsa Amini died after being arrested by the Morality Police. NOW Suffolk presents a poetry reading and discussion on the Iranian protests. Featured speakers New York Senator Anna Kaplan and poet Rooja Mohassessy will discuss the intersection of poetry and activism and what women in the United States can do to support our sisters in Iran.
Senator Kaplan (D-Port Washington) is a former child refugee who has devoted her life to public service as a way of giving back to the country that has given her so much. She was the first political refugee and the first Iranian-American elected to the New York State Senate. Now serving in her second term as a New York State Senator representing the 7th Senate District, she is Chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Economic Development, and Small Business. Senator Kaplan has been a leading voice and a strong advocate standing up for New York’s small business community.
Rooja Mohassessy is an Iranian-born poet and educator living in Northern California. She is a MacDowell fellow and a graduate of the Pacific University MFA program. Her first poetry collection, “When Your Sky Runs Into Mine,”, was the winner of the 22nd Annual Elixir Poetry Prize and will be forthcoming from Elixir Press in 2023. Her poems and reviews have appeared in Narrative Magazine, Poet Lore, RHINO Poetry, Southern Humanities Review, CALYX Journal, Ninth Letter, Cream City Review, The Rumpus, The Adroit Journal, Bare Life Review, Potomac Review, The Florida Review, New Letters, International Literary Quarterly, and elsewhere.

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