A Woman-Led Revolution in Iran
By Wim Langedijk for HURS
A Woman-Led Revolution in Iran
HUR Reads is our definitive shortlist of the most prominent articles from around the web.
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Lisa Brice Paints a Fiery Female Vengeance
In Keep Your Powder Dry at Sadie Coles HQ’s new Savile Row gallery, Lisa Brice transforms the traditionally passive female subject into an agent of fury and strength. Her crimson-hued paintings depict women smoking, boxing, and glaring with feline ferocity, their power amplified by mirrored reflections and spectral doubles, on view in London until December 20.
FRIEZE
Sarah Bochicchio uncovers a more intimate Woolf through the artist’s postcards: Woolf scribbled notes in violet ink, inviting friends to tea, protesting injustice, and revealing flashes of wit and warmth. Unlike her polished letters, these postcards capture Woolf unfiltered and alive in the everyday, what she called “non-being.” Each note to self is a glimpse of the woman behind the legend.
THE PARIS REVIEW
Three years after Mahsa Amini’s death ignited mass protests, the regime’s once-ironclad hijab law is crumbling. Across Tehran and beyond, women now walk unveiled, dance in public, and wear cropped clothing. The state blusters and backpedals, but enforcement has all but vanished. What began as an act of defiance has become daily life, a generational victory led not by politicians, but by women living as their authentic selves.
THE ATLANTIC
On Lux, Rosalía trades the pop charts for the concert hall. The Spanish singer’s latest album, split into four movements, sung in thirteen languages, and backed by the London Symphony Orchestra, feels more like a fever dream than a playlist. She sings beside Björk, channels the medieval era, and delivers an Italian aria she wrote herself. Having already mastered the pop machine, Rosalía now dismantles it, proving that versatility, not catchiness, might be the new mark of a star.
THE NEW YORKER
Four leading experts in women’s health tackle the topics medicine too often overlooks: irregular cycles, PCOS, endometriosis, perimenopause, and hormonal balance. In Part 1 of this two-part roundtable, Dr. Mary Claire Haver, Dr. Vonda Wright, Dr. Natalie Crawford, and Dr. Stacy Sims break down the hormonal truths shaping fertility, metabolism, and aging, and why understanding our biology is the key to better health at every stage.