From Empowerment to Advocacy: Innominate Identity Politics as Feminist Advocacy in Iran

Embodying Place

“…as a place to channel their politics—once radical and revolutionary, now charity‐based. In Fae Chubin's (2020a; 2020b) ethnographic articles about women's empowerment NGOs in Tehran, she intersectionally identifies how the liberal feminist values among cosmopolitan NGO activists and directors sometimes overlook the economic justice prioritized by their ethnic minority and Afghan youth clients. During my fieldwork, I saw how class tensions arose when NGO staff and volunteers periodically expressed frustrations about youth guardians who held their children home from school to engage in wage labor or help with domestic work.…”