The Woman, Life, Freedom Archive is a heartbeat carried across borders.

A memory that refuses to burn away.

A chorus of women, queer bodies, minorities voices, and diasporic dreams insisting on freedom in the face of a regime built on forgetting.

 

Gathered during the 2022 revolutionary movement, the archive holds more than ten thousand fragments of courage, posters torn from walls, chants caught in breath, trembling phone videos, rituals, songs, woven cloth, street performances, and small acts of creative disobedience carried out in bedrooms, kitchens, and city squares across the world.

 

This is an archive of embodied resistance.

Of hands that refuse to be still.

Of lives that rise, again and again, against the machinery of state violence.

 

Created by Neda Moridpour, Rashin Fahandej, and Azadeh Tajpour, the archive is not a vault but a living organism.

It grows. It breathes. It learns.

It shifts form, becoming a 2D interface, an XR environment, a sonic field, a constellation of data, a room of trembling light.

Every platform is a doorway into a movement that continues to unfold.

 

The archive is built on feminist, decolonial, care-centered practices:

slow listening, shared authorship, the protection of vulnerable stories, the honoring of grief as knowledge, and the belief that creative disobedience is a force of survival.

 

It is a transnational commons where activists, artists, students, researchers, and everyday witnesses gather to hold each other’s stories. It bridges Iranian feminist rebellion with abolitionist struggles, organizing, queer liberation, and every movement where bodies rise to say:

We have the right to live freely, to imagine freely, to resist together.

 

At its core, the Woman, Life, Freedom Archive asserts a simple truth:

the body is an archive, and every gesture of resistance is a future being born.

 

This project keeps those gestures alive

not as artifacts of the past,

but as seeds for the world yet to come.

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The archive culminates in an interactive website and an Immersive Space.

The web component is a collaboration between HAMDEL FUTURIST COLLABORATIVE, Azadeh Tajpour, Federica Fragapone and Paolo Corti.