Hello and welcome to Queer As Fact, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world

and throughout time. I'm Alice. I'm Irene. And I'm Milai. And today we're talking about the Iranian

trans activist Maram Khatun Mulcara. I have some content warnings before we begin this episode.

We're going to be talking about historic and modern transphobia and homophobia,

including from the government and within the medical establishment,

with mentions of violence, institutionalisation and imprisonment and execution.

There's also going to be the use of terms for queer people in quotes

that we might consider outdated or inappropriate,

and one instance of swearing in a quote, and we're also going to be talking a bit about the Iranian Revolution.

If any of that sounds like something you don't want to listen to, feel free to skip this episode

and check out any of our other content.

I'd like to thank Awfully Eden on Twitter for originally drawing our attention to Mariam

and suggesting this episode,

and I'd also like to thank our patrons who chose the topic of today's episode.

And if you become a patron of Queer's Fact, you also get to vote on episode topics, so consider that.

While we're talking about Patreon, I'd also like to shout out some of our patrons who have

supported this podcast.

Thank you to MK, Dwayne Lecky, Alex May, and Rebecca Golota

for supporting Queer as Fact. Yay, we love you. It's true. It's true. We've got a very short

lit review today. It's not really a lit review. So most of my sources on Mariam come from interviews that she herself did throughout her life, which we love.

Very convenient.

Did she do them in English or are they translated?

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