Interview with Shohreh Feshtali at Café Weltschmerz

Let's begin with this very special interviewer. In 1993 she managed to flee from Iran to the Netherlands. Shohreh Feshtali is now director of Café Weltschmerz, an online platform with 137,000 followers and a YouTube channel. The interview was of course about our book 'Gender Rebels'. Her own book about her childhood in Iran, 'Gesluierde jaren, verloren vrijheid – verborgen liefde' (Veiled Years, Lost Freedom – Hidden Love), is a book you read in one breath and it is already in its eleventh printing.

How miserable it is in Iran, and how hard girls and women there still have it: everyone is forced into an Islamic straitjacket. Support their struggle if you can. Another wonderful woman to follow for news from Iran is @MasihAlinejad on Insta and X. Woman! Life! Freedom! In Farsi: Zan, Zendegi, Azadi!

More about the book

The interview was about Gender Rebels (Uitgeverij het Haantje, 2024), whose forty contributors include detransitioners, scientists and young women. Read more on the Gender Rebels page and on the book page of the English edition, Rebel Girls. Other conversations are listed in the media overview, for example the podcast of Wierd Duk.