Reflections of a Kurdish Feminist
The arrest and incarceration of not only Derek M. Chauvin, but the other three cops responsible for the murder of George Floyd can only act as token efforts towards justice. Police brutality is tied to a systematic practice of multiple, intersecting layers of violence, oppression and injustices. We must ask ourselves what true justice looks like. Nothing short of upending the entire unjust system can ever come close to it.
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We must end the myth of the good man. It isn’t only bad men who are susceptible to perpetrating domestic violence. Good men are only a couple of hundred incremental changes away from being bad men. Which is why good men don’t think they can become bad men and bad men don’t think they’ve changed.
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You and I are Survivors. We are Women. This International Women’s Day reflect on history, reflect on violence, reflect on
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Overall, the revolutionary, gender liberating aspect of this freedom-grounded notion of beauty deserves much academic and scholarly attention. The existence and ongoing development of the concept of Jineology embodies that process perfectly, and doesn’t need the well-intentioned but often ill-informed input of feminists from abroad.
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Dr. Hawzhin Azeez speaks on the Rojava Revolution and beyond in this brand new interview.
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Kurdish women, like most Middle Eastern women, navigate a complex patriarchal terrain of oppression, erasure, and marginalization. Kurdish women’s increasing
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Entire cultures built, entire cultures thrive, entire civilizations flourish: on the broken bones, the slave ships, the human zoos,
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The way in which the Rojava revolution is being analyzed and presented by White, Western voices is deeply problematic and
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If your movement is not explicitly, unwaveringly committed to smashing class based oppressions, it’s not revolutionary. If your movement does
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This is one of my favorite photos ive taken recently. This is two women from the HPC (Neighborhood Protection units)
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