ABSTRACT The death of Jina Mahsa Amini on September 16, 2022, at the hands of Iran's Morality Police sparked months of protests, both domestically and internationally. This movement established “global Iran,” an interconnected network of people from diverse ethnic, linguistic, and cultural backgrounds who mobilize across identity‐based and geographic fault lines. In this paper, I examine the ways Latin American feminist groups blended with the Jina protests and joined global Iran. From a decolonial and transnational feminist theoretical lens, I argue that this blend connected people in its recognition of a collective struggle that acknowledges intersectional difference. My South–South approach focuses specifically on Mexico and Chile due to their histories of Iranian immigration and gender activism. I analyze the protests in these countries and demonstrate how they generated spaces of plurality. Moreover, I claim that Spanish, Persian, and Kurdish‐language songs and chants established a decolonial and transnational feminist praxis of solidarity between diverse communities. While most scholarly discourse on the 2022 protests has analyzed the movement's effects on Iran or on the diaspora, I consider the transnational implications. In doing so, I emphasize the communal, rather than national or individual, element of the movement. Through transnational solidarity may we strive towards a life of freedom.
Elmira Louie (Fri,) studied this question.