Somayeh Tohidi
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Somayeh Tohidi
@somayehtohidi.bsky.social
Postdoc at the University of Manchester working on misinformation; Mum; #WomanLifeFreedom

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This is her most recent one. I can’t get enough of it:

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November 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Correct! The combination of Raissadat’s voice and Ghassemi’s music is so unique, and unfortunately they don’t have any other work together. But Raissadat has such a heavenly voice, which is manifested in her other works…soft, strong, warm.
November 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
P.S. I was obviously young and so that you know, I was drinking my detoxing drink while writing this post! :))
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November 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
“Die, die in this love, die
When you die in this love, you’ll all receive new life
Die, die and don’t fear this death
From this earth you’ll rise and reach the heavens
Die, die and cut away from this ego/self
For this ego is like chains and you are like prisoners”/2
November 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Thank you☺️
November 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
…trying to hold slippery soap that keeps escaping my hands. Not every question gives me this image, but when it does appear, the question almost always turns out to be worth pursuing. The questions that feel impossible to grip are often the ones worth chasing./2
November 22, 2025 at 5:58 AM
But how can we cultivate this mindset: resisting profiling when the social group is salient to us? Can we design a nudge to help movement participants resist profiling? I'm clueless... it's so hard, and I believe the fate of social movements depends on figuring it out./6
November 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
But of course that is not true. You may be convinced that profiling is morally wrong and yet can't resist it. Profiling is so natural and resisting it is so difficult, especially when the social group is salient, like in the context of a social movement./5
November 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
So you're already capable of resisting seeing individuals only by their social identity. You're already capable of forgetting that an individual belongs to an oppressor group! Movement participants are already wired against profiling and hence wired for persistence!/4
November 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
One might think there is no need for cultivation! Demographic profiling is an essential part of oppressive practices. If you're part of a movement against oppression, you're already against profiling, right?/3
November 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
It's like the human psyche isn't built to tolerate hating too many people for too long. So it seems we need to cultivate a mindset that separates individuals from their social groups./2
November 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
However, in the humanities, people come with prior expectations that are usually far from reality, and it can take them a long time to converge to the reality of the publication market, which significantly harms their survival chances./3
October 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
In the sciences, students grasp it quickly and become fluent in publishing because they either have no prior expectations or their expectations match reality./2
October 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
😅True…
October 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
It can be but they make progress in a tangible way. So, no one is worried about them…
October 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM