Law student Hoda Katebi: Iran protests are about ’total liberation’

Follow  Berkeley Voices, podcast about the people and research that makes UC Berkeley the world-changing place that it is. Review us on Apple Podcasts. See all  Berkeley Voices  episodes. In this episode of Berkeley Voices , Berkeley Law student Hoda Katebi discusses how, after she began wearing the hijab as a sixth-grader in Oklahoma, she learned that clothes are inherently political. "It played a huge role in shaping my own personal growth, as well as my relationship to politics,” Katebi says. Since protests broke out in Iran nearly three months ago, sparked by the murder of 22-year-old Mahsa Jina Amini by Iran's so-called morality police, Katebi has been an outspoken supporter of the protesters.  "The main demand that we're hearing is, 'Jin, Jiyan, Azadî,' or, 'Woman, Life, Freedom,' which is a Kurdish, anti-imperialist, feminist, anti-capitalist chant,” she says. "I think that that's what is really hitting at the core and distinguishes these protests from others before - this is one that's calling for nothing short of the end of dictatorship, which means everything from women's rights to education to class, gender, everything.