#sahar delijani

You can post a selfie anytime but how often do you post about women you admire? Posting about them is also a kind of recognition of the struggles they faced (and still do) in creating works that have had such a huge impact on me. Works that explore and dissect struggles as well as the violence young girls and women of all ages still face.

Being a woman, it seems, has become equated with struggle. I don’t know if that’s a challenge I willingly accept but it’s certainly a world I’m born into. Struggles vary for women across the world, found in spectrums of established and unknown grays. But violence is unacceptable for always. It can not be any more black and white than that.

So here are the women who have inspired me as a writer (I’ve published some, yay!!!) and whose works taught me to be brave in contributing my voice and studies to the struggle and challenge of being a woman (working on getting published on that next!)

Gloria Anzaldua

Known for: Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987), Chicana cultural theory, feminist theory and queer theory.

Marjane Satrapi

Known for: Persepolis series (Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, 2000 and Persepolis: The Story of a Return, 2004; co-directed film adaptation in 2007), autobiographical graphic novels.

Sahar Delijani

Known for: Children of the Jacaranda Tree (novel, 2013)

I intend to do more posts like this in the future. That’s how I intend to support women.