July 2025 Friday’s e-links: A Film About Feminism and Iran

Every once in a while, (and sometimes each day) I listen to a great podcast, enjoy an article, or see a good video that I want to share with you. These are my e-links.

Last updated 7/04/25

During the Nantucket Film Festival, I saw a timeless and timely film. As a book, Reading Lolita in Tehran was first published 20 years ago.  However, like few of the countless books I have read, this one stuck with me because its message was so meaningfully individual and universal. Ostensibly, the book was about a college professor that returned to Iran from the U.S. during the 1970s. Immediately, her life narrowed. Constrained by an extreme patriarchal government, she limited her teaching, travels, and talents.

Always when big issues are illustrated by the lives of real people, they become more meaningful. For that reason, the book, and now the movie, resounded: