MahsaAmini

In Sept 2022, Jina Mahsa Amini - a young Kurdish woman - was beaten to death by Iranian "morality police." Her murder sparked a revolt throughout Iran, with women defying orders to wear the hijab, and men supporting them. Police have arrested, tortured, and murdered hundreds of protestors - including brutally raping women and burning their vaginas, to cover evidence of the rapes.

I wrote the words to this song just a few days after Amini's murder, and I want to produce it with my band, Iraqis in Pajamas, and release it to the world - to add our voice to the global outrage and call for an end to Iran's brutal regime. We need to raise $1,000 to professionally record this song. Here are the lyrics:

Mahsa Amini

A young woman

Just trying to

Breathe easy

Walk through

The streets of Tehran

Freely

But police grabbed her

Beat her to death mercilessly

Tell me

Is this your idea

Of godliness

And modesty?

Mahsa Amini

Say her name with me

You cover women up

For your shame

And indecency

Projectile vomit

Onto us

Your perverse thoughts

And obscenity

We won't take it anymore

And suffer silently

Burn the hijab

Show your face

Fearlessly

Iranian women

G*ddesses in Black

Risking your lives

under threat

Of attack

Your courage

Is breathtaking

Igniting the world

To act

We hear you

We see you

Ladies we've got

Your back

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