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A writing from Elham Malekpoor (EL)

You believe or not we are living in the darkest time of the human history and one of the reason is because we simply do not believe it, even though the bare fact is front of our eyes.

How they let this tragedy happen? I’ve asked this question all the time when I was confronting with the history we passed. In which condition human being is able to be indifference about one another? I’ve questioned when can be seen the fatal indifference of those of us who think I do nothing and no blood is on my hands. we are living in the darkest time of the human being history the time when we lose our hope to light a candle because we lost the flame of our hopes and our dreams because we do not believe we are related. I have still the faith in human being and the way which makes us be able to light our torch again is being conscious, compassionate and responsible.

Queer hobo poet has been called Elham Malekpoor Arashlu since 29th July 1983 has published several collections of poetry, most of which have been banned or censored in Iran and has had several writings published or non-published including poetry, short story, article and research; by own name or various aliases. The theoretical human rights activist who believes in saving the world with words.

El is also known as a human rights activist who is particularly dealing with child labor and queer rights and keeps the fame of a poet who has been active in both the literary domain and in human rights activities. A semi-blind has graduated from both agricultural engineering and Persian literature and had be on the Protective Fellowship Scheme for Human Rights Defenders at Risk at the center for applied human rights at the university of York and had work on the “Historicizing HOMAN” project on the first group engaged in writing the history of sexual minorities in Iran during staying at York.

El was a member of JoopeA since the beginning (2009). She is participating and cooperating as an adviser and editor. Elham joined the management team in 2015, created JoopeA’s editorial guideline, JoopeA’s members guideline and new organization Status. She is the main organizer of Homophilia Campaign & major actor for IranPride campaign.

Unfortunately, she had to leave us as permanent member due to her savior health problems on 25th of July 2018. We miss her always.

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