Women struggle
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 […]
The resistance goddess Sehid Sara Read More »
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
Jineoloji: The science of women’s liberation in the Kurdish movement Read More »
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
Why Jineolojî? Re-Constructing the Sciences towards a Communal and Free Life Read More »
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
Feminist pacifism or passive-ism? Read More »
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
Kurdish Women’s Radical Self-Defense: Armed and Political Read More »
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
Luchadoras de las YPJ anuncian la liberación de Raqqa [Galeria] Read More »
On autonomous spaces, the connection of struggles and women’s revolution in Rojava We came to Rojava as women and feminist internationalists, eager to learn from the Kurdish Women’s Movement, to live and to work with our Kurdish friends and comrades and to be part of the revolutionary process of building up and defending vivid alternatives
Women’s village: Jinwar Read More »
Free Yazidi Women’s Movement (TAJÊ) calls for the commemoration of Daesh’s Feminicide in Shengal in 2014. From the Internationalist Commune of Rojava, we join this international action day against the Feminicide, and we invite you all to participate. [su_accordion][su_spoiler title=”Original text”] Let’s make August 3rd the International Day of Struggle against Feminicide through our joint
International day against Femicide: Agust 3 Read More »