musings on women in art & life, dedicated to Tahirih,
liberation heroine born ca. 1817, Iran; poet, mystic, famed teacher and orator devoted to the education of women, one of the world's first Baha'is. Tahirih unveiled herself before a gathering of men in 1848 and was put to death secretly by night in a walled garden, 1852. Anticipating death she said, "Remember me, and rejoice in my gladness."
