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JINEOLOJÎ: Conference dedicated to the science of women in Northern Syria (Day 2)

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The first-ever conference of Jineology in Northern Syria, held in the city of Derek, ended on Saturday 13th January. In attendance were hundreds of women of all ethnicities and religions from across Northern Syria, as well as women from all four parts of Kurdistan and across the world. On this second day of the conference, […]

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JINEOLOJÎ: Conference dedicated to the science of women in Northern Syria (Day 1)

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On Friday 12th January, women gathered in the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria in the city of Derek for the first ever conference on Jineology in Northern Syria; the science of women aimed at developing a sociology, and practice behind it, based on truth and equality. Women from every ethnicity and religion of Northern Syria,

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The resistance goddess Sehid Sara

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Today 09.01.2018, it is the fifth anniversary of the deaths of Sehid Sara (Sakine Cansiz), Sehid Ronahi (Leyla Saylemez) and Sehid Rojbin (Fidan Dogan). Sehid Sara is one of the first women and founding member of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party). At a time when it was even harder for women to organize themselves politically

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Jineoloji: The science of women’s liberation in the Kurdish movement

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The next article of Marcel Cartier was published on Kurdish Question in two parts (1 and 2) on june 2016 After the first week I spent in northern Syria had come and gone, a friend of mine in the United States sent me an animated text message to check up on me: ‘Yo! How’s it

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Why Jineolojî? Re-Constructing the Sciences towards a Communal and Free Life

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Gönül Kaya is a journalist and representative of the Kurdish women’s movement. This article is the transcript of her speech at the Jineolojî Conference in March 2014 in Cologne, Germany. Why Jineolojî? Re-Constructing the Sciences towards a Communal and Free Life The Free Women’s Movement of Kurdistan evaluates jineolojî as an important step in its

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Feminist pacifism or passive-ism?

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The next article of Dilar Dirik was published in OpenDemocracy the  7 of march of 2017 Tomorrow is International Women’s Day. In the face of increasing femicide, sexual violence and rape culture, we need to confront the question of women’s self-defence.  When some white women celebrate the non-violence of women’s marches against Trump and then

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Kurdish Women’s Radical Self-Defense: Armed and Political

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This article of Dilar Dirik was published in TeleSur the 7 july 2015 The Kurdish women’s resistance operates without hierarchy and domination and is part of larger, societal transformation and liberation. The world’s powerful institutions operate through the state-structure, which has the ultimate monopoly on decision-making, economy, and the use of force. At the same

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Luchadoras de las YPJ anuncian la liberación de Raqqa [Galeria]

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El 19 de octubre, fue anunciada la liberación de la ciudad de Raqqa, ex-capital del EI (Estado Islámico) en Siria. La declaración oficial ha sido realizada por la portavoz de las YPJ, Nisrin Abdullah, en la plaza Al-Naim, lugar donde el EI cometió ejecuciones en masas para difundir el terror tanto a Siria como al

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