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Life Stories Quilt: Episode 11- Interview with Säye Skye

Säye Skye’s Interview was recorded online on June 22nd, 2020.​ 

This Episode is in Farsi. 

Säye Skye is an award winning transgender Iranian rap artist and LGBTQ rights activist at the forefront of a new hip-hop movement that has its basis in social consciousness. With astonishing originality, his experimental raps challenge deep-rooted stereotypes of misogyny, discrimination, and queerphobia. Since age 13, he has been crafting songs and poems that resonate deeply with people, using music as a platform for communicating truth. Säye Skye’s work is distinguished by both its mystery and infectious energy. Using the poetic language of Farsi, each song elicits an instant audience connection through its passion and pulse. From its unpredictable flow and hypnotic rhythms to its evocative lyrics, Säye Skye’s work invites listeners to question their current state of being.
Säye Skye is the first person in Iran’s history to dare sing about the LGBTQ community, their existence and their protracted struggle for freedom. In 2009, he recorded and released his first single in Iran, Säye Yek Zane Irani (Shadow of an Iranian Woman). As a queer artist, he was consequently put at great risk for singing and advocating for LGBTQ rights through his music. In 2010, Säye Skye was forced to leave his home and seek asylum in Turkey, where he was granted refugee status, and moved thereafter to Toronto in March 2011.
Säye Skye is currently collaborating with acclaimed German producers and singers on the release of his first EP.
sayeskye.com
سايه اسكاي خواننده رپ و فعال حقوق بشر در سال ٢٠٠٩ با سه آهنگ “سايه يك زن ايران، حق كشي و بيداري” جرات كرد براي اولين بار قفل سكوت جامعه ال جي بي تي كيو ايران را بشكند، كاري كه منجر به خروج سايه از ايران و زندگي در تبعيد در كانادا شد. در سال ٢٠١٣ جايزه بهترين هنرمند تازه وارد كانادا به سايه اسكاي تعلق گرفت. سايه با آهنگ تي ان ايي همكاري مشترك بين تيم آلماني و كانادايي به وجود آورد كه گفته ميشود در موزيك ويديو اين كار ٢٣ نفر از آلمان در منفيه ١٥ درجه دور هم جمع شدند تا پيام انساني اين آهنگ را به تصوير بكشند. در سال ٢٠١٨ سايه اسكاي در جشنواره تدي اوارد مهمترين جشنواره فيلم كويير جهان با آهنك و ويدئو تي ان ايي روي صحنه رفت و براي اولين بار در تاريخ اين جشنواره به عنوان يك خواننده ايراني حضور پيدا كرد. سايه در ٢٠٢٠ ساخت موسيقي متن و تيتراژ فيلم “نوهارد فيلينكز” را به همراه تیمش به عهده گرفت، اين فيلم داستان دو همجنسگراي پسر ايراني را با كارگرداني فراز شريعت به تصوير مي كشد. فيلمي كه دو جايزه “بست فيچر فيلم” و “ريدزآوارد” رو در جشنواره تدي اوارد در برليناله  از آن خود ساخت و از ماه سپتامبر در سينماهاي فرانسه، انگليس و امريكا بر روي پرده خواهد رفت. آخرين آهنگ منتشر شده از سايه اي دي اچ دي نام دارد كه بي شك پيشگام گفتگو در ارتباط با سلامت روان در جامعه ايران محسوب مي شود.

Music and songs: Säye Skye
Interview and Edit: Shahrzad Arshadi
Photo: @instil_image_co /courtesy of Säye Skye

Säye Skye

Life Stories Quilt: Episode 10 – Bermal Che

Interview was recorded on June 2018 in the Mountains of Kurdistan.

Interview with Bermal Che was recorded in June 2018 in the mountains of Kurdistan.

Bermal Che is a Kurdish poet, Singer, songwriter  and freedom fighter. Bermal was born and grown up in Bakur – Northern Kurdistan (Turkey). She is member of PKK.

This interview is in Kurdish.

Music and songs by: Bermal Che
Interview and Edit: Shahrzad Arshadi
Translations: Çiwana 

Photo by: Shahrzad 

Life Stories Quilt: Episode 9 – Ronia

Interview with Ronia was recorded in June 2018 in Kurdistan.  Ronia Arial is a young Kurdish/Iranian writer, poet and freedom fighter. She was born and grown up in Sanandaj, Kurdistan (Iran). Ronia is member of PJAK (Kurdistan Free Life Party) and KJAR (Kurdish women society) 

This interview is in Farsi.

*Music and songs by: Bermal
*Interview and Edit: Shahrzad Arshadi 
*Photo by: Shahrzad
 

Life Stories Quilt: Episode 5-Audio Quilt, Celebrating International Women’s Day 2019

For a World With Equality Against Forced Displacement, Religious Fundamentalism and Neo-Fascism

To honour and celebrate 2019 International Women’s Day, Life Stories Quilt podcast created a small Audio Quilt for March 8, asking different people about the importance of International Women’s Day in their opinion!

Most of the recording happened at the Women of Diverse Origins Conference on March 2nd, 2019 in Montreal.

Song that accompanied this Quilt is called; “The March of the Women”, by Ethel Mary Smyth. She was an English composer and a member of the Suffragettes movement.

Part of the lyric:

“Shout, shout, up with your song!
Cry with the wind, for the dawn is breaking;
March, march, swing you along,
Wind blows our banner, and hope is waking.
Song with its story, dreams with their glory”

Life Stories Quilt: Episode 2: Medya – Farsi translation

Interview with Medya is recorded in Kurdistan – June 2018.

Medya is a Kurdish female fighter, poet and writer.

ترجمه فارسى گفتگو با هوال مديا را مي توانيد با صداى هوال جوانا گوش كنيد

Songs and Vocal: Bermal

Life Stories Quilt: Episode 1- Shadi Amin

Interview With Shadi Amin is recorded in Trier – Germany on June 2018.

Shadi Amin is an Iranian writer and activist. She was forced to leave Iran in the early 1980s because of her political activities. She is currently living in exile in Germany. In this episode, she talks about her recent contribution to the various projects carried out by Justice for Iran and 6Rang.


شادی امین، نویسنده و کنشگر برابری جنسیتی است. شادی یکی از مدیران سازمان عدالت برای ایران و هماهنگ کننده شبکه لزبین‌ها و ترنس‌جندرهای ایرانی یا شش‌رنگ است

Music created by; Kayon Taheri