Why Iranians are cutting their hair for "Woman, Life, Freedom" | Sahar Zand

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🗓️ 23 June 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Filmmaker Sahar Zand vividly explores the ongoing struggle women face at the hands of Iranian morality police -- like living as second-class citizens with no right to travel, divorce or wear their hair uncovered -- and points to new hope as protests against this unfair treatment continue across the country and around the world. She urges us all to stand in solidarity with the fight for "Woman, Life, Freedom" and shows why hope is so dangerous to authoritarian regimes.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:10.8	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talk's Daily.
0:14.0	The women of Iran live under suffocating restrictions for not only how to look, but how
0:19.7	they're allowed to behave.
0:21.5	In her 2023 talk from Ted X London Women, journalist and filmmaker, Sahar Zand, connects the collective
0:28.0	efforts of Iranian women to cut their hair with a global fight for gender equality and justice.
0:35.0	Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant.
0:40.4	Welcome to Rethinking, my podcast on the Science of What Makes Us Tick.
0:45.2	I'm an organizational psychologist, and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating
0:49.6	people to explore how they think and what we should all rethink.
0:55.0	This season, we're rethinking resilience with historian and author Tara Westover.
0:59.3	I think it can be a lot to ask individuals to be resilient all the time.
1:03.6	I'm not sure that individuals can always be resilient, but I do think communities can
1:07.5	be, and I do think countries can be.
1:09.4	There can be an environment that we create where if people work hard, they can do well.
1:17.3	Find and follow Rethinking with Adam Grant, wherever you're listening.
1:23.7	When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
1:28.0	A footballer, an actress, a doctor?
1:32.6	Well, when I was a little girl, whenever I was asked the question, my answer was pretty
1:39.4	much always the same.
1:41.8	When I grow up, I want to become a man.
1:47.0	To my logic, that was the only way I could live a life free from the suffocating restrictions
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