Maral Karimi
@maralkay.bsky.social
PhD, Social Justice Education, @uoft. Lecturer @uoft @tmu
Author: Iranian Green Movement of 2009: Reverberating Echoes of Resistance(2018)
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498558679/The-Iranian-Green-Movement-of-2009-Reverberating-Echoes-of-Res
Author: Iranian Green Movement of 2009: Reverberating Echoes of Resistance(2018)
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498558679/The-Iranian-Green-Movement-of-2009-Reverberating-Echoes-of-Res
was quoted in @LeDevoir on rising U.S.–Iran tensions: U.S. intervention would likely begin w limited targeted strikes on nuclear sites not #regimechange, warning Iranian lives risk being instrumentalized amid escalating rhetoric & internal repression
#IranProtests
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#IranProtests
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January 29, 2026 at 3:21 PM
was quoted in @LeDevoir on rising U.S.–Iran tensions: U.S. intervention would likely begin w limited targeted strikes on nuclear sites not #regimechange, warning Iranian lives risk being instrumentalized amid escalating rhetoric & internal repression
#IranProtests
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#IranProtests
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June 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM
بیایید هر روز با خود تکرار کنیم: #تجاوز جنسی بیش از آنکه ناشی از نیاز جنسی باشد، تلاشیست برای سلطه بر بدن «دیگری». دیگریی، بدنی، که در طی فرآیندی تاریخی از انسانیت تهی شده است.
تجاوز نتیجه مناسبات قدرت و سلطهاست و نیاز جنسی نقش ثانوی داره.
تجاوز نتیجه مناسبات قدرت و سلطهاست و نیاز جنسی نقش ثانوی داره.
June 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
بیایید هر روز با خود تکرار کنیم: #تجاوز جنسی بیش از آنکه ناشی از نیاز جنسی باشد، تلاشیست برای سلطه بر بدن «دیگری». دیگریی، بدنی، که در طی فرآیندی تاریخی از انسانیت تهی شده است.
تجاوز نتیجه مناسبات قدرت و سلطهاست و نیاز جنسی نقش ثانوی داره.
تجاوز نتیجه مناسبات قدرت و سلطهاست و نیاز جنسی نقش ثانوی داره.
جناب مستطاب فوتبالیست مملکت رسما اعلان کردن همه مردها میتوانند متجاوز باشند (نهادینگی فرهنگ تجاوز) و برخلاف زمانی که زنها درباره آزارهای جنسی مینویسند، هجوم «البته نه همه مردها» را نمیبینیم (جنسیتزدگی و دفاع از ساختار مسلط مردسالار)
#کره_جنوبی
#کره_جنوبی
June 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
جناب مستطاب فوتبالیست مملکت رسما اعلان کردن همه مردها میتوانند متجاوز باشند (نهادینگی فرهنگ تجاوز) و برخلاف زمانی که زنها درباره آزارهای جنسی مینویسند، هجوم «البته نه همه مردها» را نمیبینیم (جنسیتزدگی و دفاع از ساختار مسلط مردسالار)
#کره_جنوبی
#کره_جنوبی
I'm glad the uneducated members of the Right have learned to hide behind the word 'activism'.
A term that represents the very ideals they fear: equity, fairness and anything that just may level the playing field for the marginalized.
A term that represents the very ideals they fear: equity, fairness and anything that just may level the playing field for the marginalized.
May 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I'm glad the uneducated members of the Right have learned to hide behind the word 'activism'.
A term that represents the very ideals they fear: equity, fairness and anything that just may level the playing field for the marginalized.
A term that represents the very ideals they fear: equity, fairness and anything that just may level the playing field for the marginalized.
My thoughts exactly!
May 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
My thoughts exactly!
May 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
"Everyday in #Palestine children are being slaughtered, maimed, and starved to death....
What is happening in #Gaza is not a matter of opinion. It is not complex in the way morality is made complex in order to excuse paralysis"
What is happening in #Gaza is not a matter of opinion. It is not complex in the way morality is made complex in order to excuse paralysis"
May 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
"Everyday in #Palestine children are being slaughtered, maimed, and starved to death....
What is happening in #Gaza is not a matter of opinion. It is not complex in the way morality is made complex in order to excuse paralysis"
What is happening in #Gaza is not a matter of opinion. It is not complex in the way morality is made complex in order to excuse paralysis"
In light of #Trump's outright falsehoods, PM @mark-carney.bsky.social demonstrating insane amount of restraint not calling him out in his face!
May 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
In light of #Trump's outright falsehoods, PM @mark-carney.bsky.social demonstrating insane amount of restraint not calling him out in his face!
Just when you think #Trump can't get any dumber, he resurfaces with something like this:
The movie industry in US is dying not because other Nations r taking advantage of USians (why is Nations capitalized?) it's because of the very nature of Capitalism, which goes where it can find cheap labour!
The movie industry in US is dying not because other Nations r taking advantage of USians (why is Nations capitalized?) it's because of the very nature of Capitalism, which goes where it can find cheap labour!
May 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Just when you think #Trump can't get any dumber, he resurfaces with something like this:
The movie industry in US is dying not because other Nations r taking advantage of USians (why is Nations capitalized?) it's because of the very nature of Capitalism, which goes where it can find cheap labour!
The movie industry in US is dying not because other Nations r taking advantage of USians (why is Nations capitalized?) it's because of the very nature of Capitalism, which goes where it can find cheap labour!
Donald, Canadians not only reject you and your hallucination authoritarian word vomit, they are also rejecting your opportunistic wanna be #PierrePoliviere
#CanPoli
#CanPoli
April 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Donald, Canadians not only reject you and your hallucination authoritarian word vomit, they are also rejecting your opportunistic wanna be #PierrePoliviere
#CanPoli
#CanPoli
Canadians born in Iran, Afghanistan turned away at U.S. border after Trump executive order on terror threats
March 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Canadians born in Iran, Afghanistan turned away at U.S. border after Trump executive order on terror threats
Instead of using his platform meanningfully and asking #Trump & his 2 puppetts sitting to his left real questions, this dimwit asks wartime president #Zelensky why he "doesn't wear a suite", because many Americans take issue with that!
Vein, superficial, and just plain inept.
Vein, superficial, and just plain inept.
February 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Dumb & Dumber!
USians must be proud!
USians must be proud!
February 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Dumb & Dumber!
USians must be proud!
USians must be proud!
Why don't you wear a suite? American people take issue with the way you dress
February 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Why don't you wear a suite? American people take issue with the way you dress
To my #Syrian sisters,
1 -My name is Maral, a scholar of social movements from Iran. Watching the fall of #Assad’s brutal regime fills me with hope and solidarity for your liberation. Iranians have followed your struggle with tearful eyes, cheering as #Sednaya’s prisoners were👇
1 -My name is Maral, a scholar of social movements from Iran. Watching the fall of #Assad’s brutal regime fills me with hope and solidarity for your liberation. Iranians have followed your struggle with tearful eyes, cheering as #Sednaya’s prisoners were👇
December 16, 2024 at 6:04 PM
To my #Syrian sisters,
1 -My name is Maral, a scholar of social movements from Iran. Watching the fall of #Assad’s brutal regime fills me with hope and solidarity for your liberation. Iranians have followed your struggle with tearful eyes, cheering as #Sednaya’s prisoners were👇
1 -My name is Maral, a scholar of social movements from Iran. Watching the fall of #Assad’s brutal regime fills me with hope and solidarity for your liberation. Iranians have followed your struggle with tearful eyes, cheering as #Sednaya’s prisoners were👇
The year started with the fall of “Butcher of Evin” and is ending with the fall of “Butcher of Syria”
As we say in Persian: may we have more
As we say in Persian: may we have more
December 8, 2024 at 5:19 PM
The year started with the fall of “Butcher of Evin” and is ending with the fall of “Butcher of Syria”
As we say in Persian: may we have more
As we say in Persian: may we have more
#Al_Jolani, or now Ahmad Al-Sharaa, or whatever else he calls his new iteration sounds extremely dangerous.
He is taking a book from Khomeini, Bin Laden, Al Baghdadi:
“People who fear Islamic governance either have seen incorrect implementations of it or do not understand it properly”
He is taking a book from Khomeini, Bin Laden, Al Baghdadi:
“People who fear Islamic governance either have seen incorrect implementations of it or do not understand it properly”
December 6, 2024 at 1:33 PM
#Al_Jolani, or now Ahmad Al-Sharaa, or whatever else he calls his new iteration sounds extremely dangerous.
He is taking a book from Khomeini, Bin Laden, Al Baghdadi:
“People who fear Islamic governance either have seen incorrect implementations of it or do not understand it properly”
He is taking a book from Khomeini, Bin Laden, Al Baghdadi:
“People who fear Islamic governance either have seen incorrect implementations of it or do not understand it properly”
Meanwhile on my timeline:
December 4, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Meanwhile on my timeline:
In this book, I lay out the failure of #Reform & the demise of the #GreenMovement arguing it was never a #democratic alternative to begin with, but a distortion. I then link that to the Dec 2017 uprisings (hence the cover photo) and the cyclical nature of protests in Iran.
November 26, 2024 at 4:19 PM
In this book, I lay out the failure of #Reform & the demise of the #GreenMovement arguing it was never a #democratic alternative to begin with, but a distortion. I then link that to the Dec 2017 uprisings (hence the cover photo) and the cyclical nature of protests in Iran.
مشکل جوامعی مثل ایران که در آن زنستیزی نهادینه است، تنها این نیست که امثال این کاکلزری تفکرات اینچنینی را با طلبکاری جار میزنند، مشکل حتی تنها این نیست که ملیونها مثل ایشان فکر میکنند، مشکل صدها و هزاران واکنش مجازیست به چنین افاضاتی و بیاعتنایی مطلق به تحلیلهای ریشهای.
November 24, 2024 at 3:49 PM
مشکل جوامعی مثل ایران که در آن زنستیزی نهادینه است، تنها این نیست که امثال این کاکلزری تفکرات اینچنینی را با طلبکاری جار میزنند، مشکل حتی تنها این نیست که ملیونها مثل ایشان فکر میکنند، مشکل صدها و هزاران واکنش مجازیست به چنین افاضاتی و بیاعتنایی مطلق به تحلیلهای ریشهای.
My fireplace all of a sudden decided to smoke up the entire house, forcing me to take my laptop and work in the backyard and the cold and rain.
Thank you climate change, if few years ago, this would not have been imaginable in at the end of November.
Thank you climate change, if few years ago, this would not have been imaginable in at the end of November.
November 23, 2024 at 6:28 PM
My fireplace all of a sudden decided to smoke up the entire house, forcing me to take my laptop and work in the backyard and the cold and rain.
Thank you climate change, if few years ago, this would not have been imaginable in at the end of November.
Thank you climate change, if few years ago, this would not have been imaginable in at the end of November.
Regime in #Tehran finally declared #ArmitaGaravand dead.
She is the latest young woman falling victim to state sanctioned murders.
I don’t believe 4 a second she was alive all this time, but war in #Gaza provided most opportune time 4 regime to inform the public.
She is the latest young woman falling victim to state sanctioned murders.
I don’t believe 4 a second she was alive all this time, but war in #Gaza provided most opportune time 4 regime to inform the public.
October 28, 2023 at 3:10 PM
Regime in #Tehran finally declared #ArmitaGaravand dead.
She is the latest young woman falling victim to state sanctioned murders.
I don’t believe 4 a second she was alive all this time, but war in #Gaza provided most opportune time 4 regime to inform the public.
She is the latest young woman falling victim to state sanctioned murders.
I don’t believe 4 a second she was alive all this time, but war in #Gaza provided most opportune time 4 regime to inform the public.
Did you know that southern Ontario where I live, has the worlds most beautiful fall colors? And did you know that this year fall colors are not as bright because of the massive wildfires across Canada this past summer?
October 27, 2023 at 6:25 PM
Did you know that southern Ontario where I live, has the worlds most beautiful fall colors? And did you know that this year fall colors are not as bright because of the massive wildfires across Canada this past summer?