00:10Farooq Farooq Saad was a young woman who dared to defy stupid attitudes towards women.
00:20In Iran, she's considered the most significant female poet of the 20th century.
00:27She had to struggle in order to get her voice out.
00:31Never had a woman written so explicitly about her experience in an act of love.
00:37That was shocking. It still remains shocking for lots of people.
00:42What she describes about her willingness to have relationships with men, relationships that involve sex.
00:47There was one contingent that was just horrified by what Farooq was writing about.
00:52She was a great target. I mean, a woman who writes like that and is not ashamed to publish it.
00:58It was very craftily made into a sensation and the sensation sold.
01:06Everybody in the press condemned her behavior.
01:09She ended up in the psychiatric ward for a month or so, had electric shock therapy.
01:14With each no she encountered, she fought back with an even more furious yes.
01:22Yes, I will. I will write. I will live life on my own terms.
01:27Voice, voice, voice. Only voice remains.
01:31And what has remained? Her voice.
01:36Voice, voice, voice.
01:39Voice, voice, voice.
01:45Transcription by CastingWords
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