Somayeh Tohidi
@somayehtohidi.bsky.social
Postdoc at the University of Bristol working on Longtermism; Mum; #WomanLifeFreedom
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Somayeh Tohidi
@somayehtohidi.bsky.social
· Feb 18
One of the most appealing aspects of doing philosophy, for me, is having a curious puzzle tucked away in my mind for a long time. It feels like a safe, quiet room within my mind where I can take refuge whenever I’m overwhelmed by the external world.
This has become the symbol of Valentine’s Day on Iranian social media. A woman saying her final goodbye to her partner, killed in the January massacre.
February 15, 2026 at 11:35 AM
This has become the symbol of Valentine’s Day on Iranian social media. A woman saying her final goodbye to her partner, killed in the January massacre.
Research papers are like tattoos on your intellectual body. If you don’t attend to them properly, they get infected. Half-understood ideas sitting uneasily under the skin. I finally have time to sit with a few old ones. It feels like a cat licking old wounds.🐈
February 12, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Research papers are like tattoos on your intellectual body. If you don’t attend to them properly, they get infected. Half-understood ideas sitting uneasily under the skin. I finally have time to sit with a few old ones. It feels like a cat licking old wounds.🐈
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Alice James told her brother Henry James that, could she have her close friend Katherine Loring “quietly and uninterruptedly for a year to relieve her of all responsibility, she would get well”. Alice was diagnosed with hysteria and Henry cruelly surmised that her illness was a ploy to keep K close
February 11, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Alice James told her brother Henry James that, could she have her close friend Katherine Loring “quietly and uninterruptedly for a year to relieve her of all responsibility, she would get well”. Alice was diagnosed with hysteria and Henry cruelly surmised that her illness was a ploy to keep K close
“Israel does not become stronger if the Iranian regime falls; it becomes stronger when people’s struggles all over the region, including Iran, are discredited and dismissed, […] when the voice of people […] drowned in the toxic calculations of geopolitic.”
February 3, 2026 at 7:08 PM
“Israel does not become stronger if the Iranian regime falls; it becomes stronger when people’s struggles all over the region, including Iran, are discredited and dismissed, […] when the voice of people […] drowned in the toxic calculations of geopolitic.”
“Thinking of home”
by Arghavan Khosravi
by Arghavan Khosravi
February 1, 2026 at 12:29 PM
“Thinking of home”
by Arghavan Khosravi
by Arghavan Khosravi
A quiet trend has emerged among the grieving. Mothers who lost children in the recent massacre have begun to dance at memorials and burials, as if whispering to the ones they’ve lost: ‘I’m exhausted from this endless darkness. I have no more tears left. So let me dance for you instead.‘
January 28, 2026 at 9:38 PM
A quiet trend has emerged among the grieving. Mothers who lost children in the recent massacre have begun to dance at memorials and burials, as if whispering to the ones they’ve lost: ‘I’m exhausted from this endless darkness. I have no more tears left. So let me dance for you instead.‘
“The Islamic Republic functions as a coherent political formation that fuses clerical authority, security apparatuses, and nationalist ideology into a durable system of domination. Its violence is constitutive. Any Marxism, any Leftism that cannot recognize this collapses into state fetishism.”
Open Letter to the Anti Imperialist Left - TripleAmpersand Journal (&&&)
To those on the Left who speak fluently of genocide, apartheid, and colonial domination, this letter is addressed to you. There is a spectacle unfolding within segments of the self-proclaimed radical ...
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January 28, 2026 at 5:44 PM
“The Islamic Republic functions as a coherent political formation that fuses clerical authority, security apparatuses, and nationalist ideology into a durable system of domination. Its violence is constitutive. Any Marxism, any Leftism that cannot recognize this collapses into state fetishism.”
They say the wise don’t suffer less. They just expect more to go wrong, and are less surprised when it does. But I lost a whole self in the dust of the 12-day war, the massacre, and everything that has followed. How was I supposed to expect that? I lost myself. How is anyone supposed to expect that?
January 20, 2026 at 9:32 PM
They say the wise don’t suffer less. They just expect more to go wrong, and are less surprised when it does. But I lost a whole self in the dust of the 12-day war, the massacre, and everything that has followed. How was I supposed to expect that? I lost myself. How is anyone supposed to expect that?
You can’t be the wisest political analyst and the most effective political activist at the same time. Political activism demands an emotional vigilance in which you can’t sustain a neutral, risk-averse analyst perspective.
January 15, 2026 at 8:05 AM
You can’t be the wisest political analyst and the most effective political activist at the same time. Political activism demands an emotional vigilance in which you can’t sustain a neutral, risk-averse analyst perspective.
I wish I could keep this account for my academic life and not pour the chaos of my political life into here, but given what is happening in my country, I feel guilty for even having this wish! I understand if you decide to unfollow given the disturbing content.
January 13, 2026 at 6:19 PM
I wish I could keep this account for my academic life and not pour the chaos of my political life into here, but given what is happening in my country, I feel guilty for even having this wish! I understand if you decide to unfollow given the disturbing content.
“An Iranian woman lies next to her sister’s body after she was killed by the Islamic Republic during the protests.”
January 12, 2026 at 10:01 PM
“An Iranian woman lies next to her sister’s body after she was killed by the Islamic Republic during the protests.”
Thousands have been killed and are being killed… in darkness… What can I do? God… what can I do…despair…absolute despair..
January 12, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Thousands have been killed and are being killed… in darkness… What can I do? God… what can I do…despair…absolute despair..
Some of my favourite quotes from @iran.feminist.liberation (on Instagram):
1- Reducing people's uprisings to geopolitics and state actors erases lived experiences.
1- Reducing people's uprisings to geopolitics and state actors erases lived experiences.
January 10, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Some of my favourite quotes from @iran.feminist.liberation (on Instagram):
1- Reducing people's uprisings to geopolitics and state actors erases lived experiences.
1- Reducing people's uprisings to geopolitics and state actors erases lived experiences.
Doctor says more than 200 reported dead in Tehran as regime opens fire on protests
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time.com/7345092/iran...
Doctor Says More Than 200 Reported Dead in Tehran Protests
"I'm not in the police to kill people," says one Iranian officer as the regime vows to continue its protest crackdown.
time.com
January 10, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Doctor says more than 200 reported dead in Tehran as regime opens fire on protests
time.com/7345092/iran...
time.com/7345092/iran...
January 9, 2026 at 2:31 PM