“As an Iranian woman and activist, Sotoudeh's plight resonated with me ...” — Nazanin Boniadi Quote

“As an Iranian woman and activist, Sotoudeh's plight resonated with me on a deeply personal level.”

“As far as the 2009 elections go, there has been a serious crackdown on human rights in Iran, a clampdown on the media and the wrongful imprisonment of journalists. So it seems what's happening is the government is going after people who have a voice, people who change society or public opinion.”

“I do think faith is important when it introduces positivity into your life and you see it with love in your heart because there's so many people who unfortunately use faith for detrimental things or to justify detrimental actions.”

“Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.”

“If I ever called myself an activist, I regret it, and I was cornered into it by an industry who couldn't justify me taking up space without saying that I had some kind of radical political agenda because they saw my participation as a radical political thing. Which it was not.”

“If we took the passion and the conviction that the activist trans community has and we combined it with this over-the-top marketable charisma of drag, I feel like if we worked together, we could really effect major social change and world change.”