You and I are Survivors. We are Women!
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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Feminism
Freedom: The YPJ and a New Beauty Standard
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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On Oppression, Liberation, and Decolonization of Revolutionary Struggles: An Interview with Dr. Hawzhin Azeez
Dr. Hawzhin Azeez speaks on the Rojava Revolution and beyond in this brand new interview.
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From Nouri to the YPJ: Evolving Visions of Kurdish Femininity
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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Snapshots of Yesterday’s Oppression
Entire cultures built, entire cultures thrive, entire civilizations flourish: on the broken bones, the slave ships, the human zoos,
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The Western Gaze and the violent binary of Colonized Agency
The way in which the Rojava revolution is being analyzed and presented by White, Western voices is deeply problematic and
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It’s Not Revolutionary If…
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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The Women of Rojava Revolution
This is one of my favorite photos ive taken recently. This is two women from the HPC (Neighborhood Protection units)
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She Still Breathed
When she is born they wrap her in the warm, woolly blanket of ‘no’s and ‘cant’s so that when she
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