Aubrey Fagon - Handmaids

In the autumn of 2022, the world watched and hearts broke when Mahsa Zhina Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, died in the custody of Iran's so-called "morality police." Her death sparked global outrage, igniting a movement demanding freedom. Women removed their headscarves in public. Men cut their hair. Families marched shoulder to shoulder for justice. Across continents, Iranians in exile found new ways to stand in solidarity.

On the streets of London, a striking image emerged: British-Iranian women, clad in the robes and white bonnets of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, marched in solemn procession. Their silent formation became a powerful symbol against the enforced subjugation of women.

The events captured in this photo-zine gather these moments of witness and resistance. Here, you'll see the defiant geometry of bonnets in unison; imagine threads of scarlet fabric caught in a London breeze; feel the quiet determination in lifted chins and raised hands. Each frame is a testament to the courage of women who claim The Handmaid's Tale not as fiction but as prophecy a haunting mirror held up to the theocratic regime in Iran and its systems of control over women's bodies and voices.

These events were presented by Stage of Freedom, a collective of democratic activists. As you turn these pages, may you feel both the weight of their grief and the soaring hope in their solidarity.