Hugo Velazquez Perez Kovach and Ally Temple (2023) "Crystallized Exposure." This video presents a data visualization of one million posts collected from Twitter in November 2022 using the tag #MahsaAmini. Our aim was to determine how many hashtags were populated from the least to most significant by countries. We needed a way to depict the hashtag's popularity globally. Each crystalized structure represents a country/region. The cluster increases in size while the shape changes. Size represents the increase in the number of tweets.
Jin, Jiyan, Azadi in Iran
(Woman, Life, Freedom)
On 16 September 2022, the 22-year-old Kurdish woman Jina (Mahsa) Amini died in a hospital in Tehran, Iran, under suspicious circumstances. The Guidance Patrol, the religious morality police of Iran's government, arrested Amini for allegedly not wearing the hijab in accordance with government standards. The Law Enforcement Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran stated that she had a heart attack at a police station, collapsed, and fell into a coma before being transferred to a hospital. However, eyewitnesses, including women who were detained with Amini, reported that she was severely beaten and that she died as a result of police brutality, which was denied by the Iranian authorities. The assertions of police brutality, in addition to leaked medical scans, led some observers to believe Amini had a cerebral hemorrhage or stroke due to head injuries received after her arrest.
The significance of her death is multi-layered. While the hashtag #MahsaAmini served as the largest category through which this story was shared across social media, her real Kurdish name was Jina.
As Soha Saghazadeh has guided us on the centrality of the name Jina and the Kurdish root of this chant, see "'Jîna:' Erasure of Kurdish Women and Their Politics from the Uprisings in Iran" by Farangis Ghaderi and Ozlem Goner. The extended version of this article has been published in IJMES, "Jin, Jiyan, Azadi and the Historical Erasure of Kurds." Also, find Jin, Jiyan, and Azadi articulated in transnational joint struggle in this collective statement: "Jin Jiyan Azadî, as in Free Palestine."
#MahsaAmini on Twitter
RT @AnonymousAnnou3: The brutality of this disgusting regime knows no bounds. Human rights are just a term that has no meaning for this reg… |
از #اعتصابات_سراسری بگید.
#مهسا_امینی #توماج_صالحی #سامان_یاسین
#OpIran #IranRevolution2022 #MAHSAAMINI https://t.co/LYZ1tDAy10 |
RT @AlinejadMasih: A cultural earthquake. The most well known Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti remove her hijab publicly. Another blow lan… |
RT @AnonOpsSE: Do you know of a freedom rally for #Iran?
Leave date/locations/times in comments and share so others can join
آیا از راهپیما… |
RT @shahinnajafi80: منطق جمهوری اسلامی بر پایه ایجاد ترس و تفرقه شکل گرفته است. هرکس به هر عنوان پیرو این منطق ایجاد تفرقه در انقلاب باشد،… |
RT @IranNewsUpdate1: #IranRevolution2022
As beacons of hope, university students resumed anti-regime #IranProtests on day 58 of protests de… |
RT @persian_cowboy_: Yalda Aghafazli, a 19-year-old Iranian artist, has died shortly after being released from jail.
The Islamic Republic… |
RT @sinavaliollah: اینجا لندن و پاریس و برلین و مونیخ و بارسلونا و تورنتو و نیویورک و تگزاس و مکزیکوسیتی و ریودوژانیرو و توکیو و پکن و دهلی… |
ونكوور، كانادا
١٢ نوامبر
Sex is great but have you ever fucked Islamic Republic
#مهسا_امینی #MahsaAmini #IranRevoIution https://t.co/Z2lQSrruxM |
RT @FattahiFarzad: قله کلکچال
#مهسا_امینی
«از قلههای تهران فریاد میزنیم
زنده باد بلوچستان، بژی کردستان»
#MahsaAmini
٢٠ آبان، تهرا ن htt… |
RT @AlinejadMasih: I dream of getting a ticket to fly back to my beloved Iran to hug my family. It’s a dream of thousands of Iranians who h… |
RT @BehdinEran: Yoga instructor Sharareh Saebi Monfared #شراره_صائبی_منفرد was arrested by the security forces in her home on the 29th of… |
Network Visualization on half a million tweets on #MahsaAmini circulating among 60,000 users in November 2022. The red tweets are in Farsi, the green are English, and the white are French.