"I am sitting here now with a bag of boiling water on my heart"
So the twenty-one-year-old Orson Welles cut Ophelia almost entirely from his hour-long Hamlet it turns out, only introducing her ten minutes from the end to drown her so that he could do the grave-digger scene. That's quite a cut. Let's put a pin in that then, and rejoin the Womens' Revolution in Iran. Among the death sentences and other horrors of state retaliation following the death in custody of Mahsa Ahmini after her arrest for inappropriate headwear, there are also sanitary pads being put up to blind security cameras now. Instagram's translation of Sareh Ghomi's brilliant post above provides both illumination and a poetry of its own, but take any gendered pronouns with a pinch of salt because I think Farsi only has the one. Thanks to my friend Faren for sharing this:
"This is the women's
revolution, I mean this picture, I am sitting right now with a bag of
boiling water on my heart and rolling in pain to myself and thinking why
I shouldn't have seen this one piece all these years, special black
bags that when you said: a pack of purple blinks, please! The local
superintendent wouldn’t hand you in that thick, smelly black bag. I
mean, during her pregnancy, the path of the drawer from the room to the
bathroom had to be put like a bartender in your pocket or pull your
pants and shirt over it so that the male elements of the family and
friends would not see it and get upset! I mean my friend who never threw
his used tape in the trash bin at his workplace and took it with him to
an urban trash bin because he thought the environment was too
masculine! That day when your boyfriend, after a big party, wants to
clean the toilet, but his laziness in putting the bag in the bucket and
sticking one of the same used ones to the bottom of the bucket, makes
him face a scene he had never seen before and sound Don't forget to
throw it up! They don't know what winged means! They don't know what to
buy when you're in trouble and slamming the door and wall! Or even
ashamed to buy and load a super so that the important package is not
visible, sometimes out of kindness buy diapers like because you're in so
much pain. Sanitary tape is a white fragrant piece that prevents the
bleeding from spreading, and right here in this picture, it's glued
itself to the wagon camera to stop the bleeding so it doesn't get lost!
So the female body and all that's connected with it is changing user,
it's taking over, it's breaking all taboos, see this white piece stuck
to the camera and remember to be safe you are safe too. #women_life_freedom"
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