#Dilar Dirik

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Published in October, The Kurdish Women's Movement by Dilar Dirik. I'm a co-translator. The book is an interesting and inspiring read!

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JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava Can the Kurdish Women’s Movement Transform the Middle East? [UPDATES]

We’re all familiar with the orientalized, fetishized image of the Kurdish warrior woman doing battle against ISIS. Part Amazon, part Angelina Jolie, she’s all too easily sanitized, Westernized, and plucked out of her context in the militant, women-led Kurdish liberation movement. In The Kurdish Women’s Movement: History, Theory, Practice, Kurdish academic Dilar Dirik aims to deepen and complicate this image, placing that movement in the context of decades of checkered, often-overlooked “History,” a unique historic and sociological “Theory,” and a “Practice” claiming to touch the lives of millions of women across the Middle East…

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𝗢𝗡 𝗔𝗜𝗥 - Tuesday 5 November at 7:00 pm (CET) - usmaradio.org

USMA for radioart106

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗜𝗗𝗗𝗟𝗘 𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗧 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗦 - 𝗠𝗜𝗫𝗧𝗔𝗣𝗘 (𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬) [58 min.]

Playlist:

1. Robert Wyatt - ‘dondestan’ (dondestan 1991)

2. Valerie Vivancos - ‘Restless till Kairos’ feat. Bernard Clarke 

and Dinah Bird. Words by Dareen Tatour (#poemontrial 2018)

3. Miranda De La Frontera - ‘Dear Viyan’ feat. Viyan Peyman 

and Dilar Dirik (Music, Awareness & Solidarity w/ Rojava Revolution.  

female:pressure compilation 2016)

4. Ramy Essam - ‘Ah Ya Balad’ رامى عصام - اه يا بلد (2014)

5. Meira Asher & Guy Harries - ‘Torture Bodyparts’ (Infantry 2001)

6. Dareen Tatour - ‘Freedom’ حُرِّيَّة (The Last Invasion 2010)

7. Muqata’a - Akher Kilmeh أخر كلمة (Hayawan Nateq حيوان ناطق 2013)

8. Dam - JASADIK HOM  جسدكهم (BEN HAANA WA MAANA 2019)

9. Olivia Louvel - Afraid Of Women (Music, Awareness & Solidarity w/ Rojava Revolution. female:pressure compilation 2016)

10. Ramy Essam - Prison Doesn't Kill. The Last Letter of Shady Habash  السجن مابيموتش رسالة شادي حبش ال��خيرة  (2020)

11. Raja Meziane - Allo le Système! (2019)

12. Meira Asher & Guy Harries - The School (Infantry 2001)

13. Dam - Jerusalem Al Quds (2018)

14. Muqata'a - Mish Aktar مش اكتر

(Singles 2020)

15. Sote - Holy Error (Sacred Horror In Design 2017)

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Reflections on 2023 Turkish Elections, Post-Earthquake Bakur and the Kurdish Movement

The following is an interview we conducted with Katka and Hazel, who both live in the UK and were recently back from Bakur, the portion of Kurdistan within the borders of Turkey. For 2 hours the guests speak about the political violence from Erdogan’s ruling AKP, suppression of the Kurdish movement, electoral strategies, democratic confederalism, political prisoners and the F-Type prisons in Turkey, the earthquakes from earlier in the year, widespread corruption and other topics.

Transcript

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Zine (Imposed PDF)

A few links related to the chat:

Heyva Sor a Kurdistanê - Kurdish Red Crescent : https://www.heyvasor.com/en/

The Kurdish Women’s Movement by Dilar Dirik (we interviewed in 2014: p1, p2)

The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics book

14th July film about resistance in Turkish prisons (requires youtube signin): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw64OUb2pkU

Announcements

ACABookfair Audios Available Soon

f you missed the ACABookfair or any of the workshops, we’ve got a happy surprise for you. Give a gander in the next week to ACABookfair.noblogs.org for the media page that will soon be populated with audio recordings of some of the presentation events on various topics. More likely than not, some of those will end up in future episodes of The Final Straw, fyi.

Latest BAD News Out Now!

Also, the latest episode of Bad News from the A-Radio Network is also now up at their website, but also linked in our show notes. You’ll hear from contributing members of the A-Radio Network sharing perspectives at the 2023 St-Imier gathering in Switzerland on the importance of the audio medium like radio and podcasts to the building of anarchist movement. You can also find links in the show notes for this episode to the live broadcast throughout the weekend by Radio RIA and some video of presentations and audios of presentations in German, Spanish, French, Italian and English. Maybe even one or two in Esperanto for you spicey types.

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Featured Tracks:

Serêkaniyê û Avaşîn by Mehmûd Berazî

Cerr performed by Mehmûd Berazî

Check out this episode!

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performingborders e-Journal #2 Rallying The Commons

Curator, Producer

Rallying the Commons is here – we couldn’t be more excited to share our second e-journal! 

READ the e-journal HERE

The performingborders e-journal is a space to reflect on borders, live art, community, and resistance. Centering embodied knowledge and artists’ imagination as a space of knowledge production, the e-journal is a site to nourish and connect thinking and working practices. The theme of this year’s journal: Rallying the Commons stems from the process of rallying together, of commoning and communing, for the creation of something better and the maintenance of other ways of being. It is a movement away from disembodied discourse towards actions and gestures that let us consider what we can do when we harness our resources, time, bodies, and care, to collectivize them. 

In the e-journal, you’ll find contributions from artists and activists working across cultural and political spaces. We are excited to share sonic listening rituals by Ximena Alarcón-Díaz and Sheila Ghelani’s tender reflections on care in the art sector. Helena Walsh reflects on the role of feminist organising and art activist groups within an Irish context. Harun Morrison shares his collaboration with horticulturist Antonia Couling and their work The Anchor, The Drum, The Ship.Elif Sarican and Dilar Dirik write on hevaltî- revolutionary friendship reflecting  on the Kurdish Women’s Movement. Lara Khaldi from The Question of Funding  shares with us community-centered funding models and the use of Dayra within their project in Palestine. And we close with a Budget Commission by Jack Ky Tan who has been reflecting with us on  budgets, value systems and thinking beyond numbers. We hope that within these words, sounds, images, and gestures you find echoes of resistance that allow us to continue the necessary work of imagining other worlds. 

performingborders e-Journal #2 Rallying The Commons

Curated and Edited by Xavier de Sousa, Anahí Saravia Herrera and Alessandra Cianetti. Designed by Rodrigo Nava Ramírez Social Media and Design support: Anna Corfa

Thank you to our friends at the Necessity Fund and to Arts Council England for supporting this work.

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more people should read “The Kurdish Women’s Movement: History, Theory, Practice” by Dilar Dirik. it’s really academic (and took me Forever bc of it), but it’s so valuable when it comes to explaining not only the history of the Kurdish freedom/people’s movements, but also showing an example of an (already in-use) alternative to the nation-state system, the pointlessness of liberal/mainstream feminism, the role of Europe & the US (&their nation-states) in the rise of terror groups & feminicide in W. Asia, and tons and tons of other things

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Feminismo pacifista ou passivista?

Feminismo pacifista ou passivista?

Por Dilar Dirik no Entranhas Tradução Elisa Rosas Amanhã é o Dia Internacional da Mulher. Frente ao aumento do feminicídio, da violência sexual e da cultura do estupro, precisamos nos confrontar com a questão da autodefesa das mulheres. Quando algumas mulheres brancas comemoram a não-violência da marcha das mulheres contra o Trump e posam para fotografias com policiais, enquanto a violência…

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Exploration list #58

Some things to read, watch or listen to, and then ponder.

Edward the Dyke and other poems by Judy Grahn (x) [book].

Marilyn Frye on separatism and power (x, with a caveat) [essay].

All men are men, as pointed out by Janice Turner (x) [article].

A lesbian writing on womanhood and detransition [essay].

Magdalen Berns on misgendering, violence and law [video].

“Feminist pacifism or passive-ism?“, by Dilar Dirik [essay].

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Rapimenti, stupri, torture: così Erdogan combatte le partigiane curde Un anno fa erano le eroine da “esibire” nei salotti mediatici o sulle copertine di riviste patinate. Per la loro bellezza, prim’ancora che per la loro determinazione nel combattere per la libertà. Ora su di loro e su la loro lotta è calato il silenzio. Non fanno più notizia. Per molti, non per Globalist. È passato un anno da quando Hevrin Khalaf è stato uccisa lungo un'autostrada nel nord-est della Siria, trascinata per i capelli, picchiata e uccisa a colpi di arma da fuoco da mercenari. Le foto del suo corpo mutilato sono poi apparse sui social media, in quello che molti hanno detto essere un chiaro messaggio delle forze armate turche della regione: questo è il prezzo che pagheranno le donne curde che hanno combattuto per la liberazione. ...a morte della sua amica. E da allora le cose sono solo peggiorate, aggiunge. “La vita pubblica delle donne nella regione è diventata "invivibile", riassume Dilar Dirik, attivista e ricercatrice curda dell'Università di Oxford. Nelle chat e sui social network rimbalzano le immagini terribili di combattenti curde catturate, trascinate per i capelli e violentate dai soldati turchi o dai miliziani siriani prima di essere finite con un colpo alla nuca. I rapimenti di donne sono diventati così comuni che il progetto "Missing Afrin Women Project" ha lanciato un sito web all'inizio del 2018 per rintracciare le segnalazioni di sparizioni nella città di Afrin: dal maggio 2018 sono stati registrati 6.000 rapimenti, tra cui 1.000 donne, un rapporto di Kongra Star rivendicato in agosto. ...Una recente commissione d'inchiesta del Consiglio dei diritti umani dell'Onu sulla Siria ha evidenziato un aumento della "violenza sessuale e di genere contro le donne e le ragazze" in Siria nella prima metà del 2020. Il rapporto ha documentato che almeno 30 donne nella città curda di Tal Abyad sono state violentate nel solo mese di febbraio. "Un ex giudice ha confermato che i combattenti dell'esercito nazionale siriano sono stati accusati di stupro e di violenza sessuale durante le incursioni nelle case della regione. Tuttavia, nessuno di loro era stato condannato, ma era stato rilasciato dopo pochi giorni", osserva il rapporto. ...Swed sostiene che le forze turche "prendono di mira soprattutto le donne, come è stato evidente nel brutale attacco alla martire Khalaf". Nell'anno successivo all'omicidio, gli episodi di grave violenza contro le donne si sono trasformati in ciò che gli attivisti e i dirigenti curdi decantano come una vera e propria campagna di violenza sessuale e di assassinii mirati di figure femminili di spicco. ...la Turchia sta prendendo sistematicamente di mira le donne attiviste e i politici che sono stati in prima linea nell'organizzazione politica del Paese, usando la giustificazione che sta "neutralizzando i terroristi". Molte delle vittime femminili sono state anche mutilate con le foto dei loro corpi esposte sui social media. "Una cosa è uccidere qualcuno in guerra, ma quello che succede qui è che vanno a spogliare il corpo della donna morta e poi lo filmano e lo fanno circolare", afferma Dirik. "E' per dire: Guarda, qui stiamo disonorando la donna", aggiunge. ... Umberto De Giovannangeli

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Week 4: 20th Oct: Antye Greie

I related to Antye Greie's work as she brings the inseparable collaboration between art and politics into her sonic art expression.

Sound camps Sonic wild code sonic wilderness 

Feminism uncovering forgotten women in sound 

Improvisation piece wanted to make something rhythmic 

Line of women in the rice field 2018 lovely gentle noises cricket, bell and other sounds textures and tones.  Filmed this piece then performed it later live on stage.  She wrote  a few chapters about sonic interventions and sonic wildness.

On vimeo

“treeing”Hanoi vietnam 2019 middle of city meditating around an ancient tree

She has done 20 masterdome improvisations 

Did a 

Blueberry sonic experience aking recording equipment out of mushrooms and other forages

Moving away from  growing frequencies apart growing 

Using frequency improvisation links this to buddhism 2016 piece got people to use voice and body. 

below she did a political art piece by applying female pressure and awareness and solidarity campaign for the cantons of Rojava in northern Syria

Antye Greie-Ripatti aka AGF has curated a female:pressure campaign called #Rojavato raise awareness and show solidarity to the cantons of Rojava, in northern Syria. Hoping to promote social, racial and ethnic justice, gender, religious freedom, ecological principles.

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Ryoko akam 2013

Went to a nuclear power plant making a spell to bewitch this place. she then moved onto introduce feminism and intersectional space and identity.

Her piece sound suspension a rerun of her walk

Methods of gathering people

Critical body  Kubra Khdemi  Afghan woman

Intersectional feminism  inequality between women, passports, women and sexuality, women and class, women and LGBTI issues. women and race.

 Conditions, legal rights, sonic concepts were using bodies in space, holding, 

Human noise

Humming. How to collaborate or interact from a privileged position how can we help, she asked the audience hoe can we help, how do we tackle these inequalities

Microphones

Worked with contact mic she ran over their body, the mic doesn't care about gender, sex

The colour of skin.  The collective humming intervention

She is working on an idea below Position, Composition and sound

Build space called recon.org to commission on this site 

A layered embodied experience 

In opposition to her and her desire to expose everything she is interested in

Female pressure eclectic indigo vienna 3000 off social media network

Campaigned for visibility, gender sex studies to try and change sound field 

In terms of gender

Antye Greie interviewed Lastesis about their performance and sound.

 "What began as a crowd of blindfolded women chanting in the Chilean port of Valparaiso* turned into a global movement to fight domestic and institutionalized sexual violence."

Women fighters in sierra  

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Hats Off (But Dresses On) to Our Kurdish Feminist Brothers 5/3/2013 by

DILAR DIRIK

A remarkable and unusual sort of civil disobedience has been triggered in Marivan, a city in the Kurdistan Province of Iran. On April 15, an Iranian court in the city forced a male convict to wear traditional Kurdish women’s clothes in public, perceiving it as a humiliating punishment. Kurdish feminists of the Marivan Women’s Community protested against this misogynistic decision on the streets of Marivan in red traditional clothes, similar to the Kurdish bride robe that the convicts had to wear, and they were confronted by violent security forces.

Then, in solidarity with the women, Kurdish men took an extraordinary initiative by dressing as Kurdish women and posting their photos on social media.

In a café in the heart of Frankfurt, Germany, my friend Çiğdem and I enjoyed tea with Masoud Fathi and Dler Kamangar, two of the feminist men behind this campaign, which has made international news.

Masoud Fathi is a poet, journalist, political activist—and feminist. He is from Marivan, a city known for its disobedience and resistance. He had his friend Dler take a photo of him wearing an authentic, grass-green Kurdish woman’s robe, and posted it on his Facebook page, adding the sentence that became the slogan of the campaign: “Being a woman is not a tool to humiliate or punish anyone”.

Soon, some friends joined this brave statement by taking pictures of themselves in women’s dresses. Within a week, the Facebook page “Kurd Men for Equality” gained over 13,000 fans. Women and men from other parts of Kurdistan, Europe and America expressed their solidarity and shared commitment to gender equality with their own photos.

How did Masoud feel when he put on this impressive green dress?

When I wore that dress, I suddenly realized how much evil the chauvinist thinking of men, male-dominated religions, ideologies and systems have caused. I understood that masculine culture has destroyed the world.

The pictures on Facebook are as diverse as the Kurdish nation: A cute, smiling little boy in red challenges patriarchy the same way as a mature, serious-looking man with thick glasses in a delightfully charming dress. Some women are dressed in Kurdish men’s clothes, some of them stand next to male friends who wear flashy dresses with pride. One mother in a traditional men’s outfit stands confidently alongside her adolescent son, who smiles in a bright-blue, shimmering woman’s gown. Some men covered their faces to escape persecution by the Iranian regime.

Sasan Amjadi, a contributor to this project and a friend of Masoud and Dler’s, says,

The Iranian regime is fascist, and it is almost inevitable that this affects the society, which leads parts of the Iranian population to accept the regime’s beliefs. Perhaps 40 percent of the population does not believe in women. I did not feel any strangeness when I put on a woman’s dress. I just wanted to demonstrate who we were: This is what we look like, this is our culture and they cannot insult our culture, our mothers and sisters. We cannot accept that. … There can be no free society without free women. It is in the responsibility of men to end this culture of male hegemony.

Men in Western societies have also resorted to wearing women’s clothes in order to challenge gender discrimination. Even the most democratic societies struggle with rape culture, sexism, homophobia and transphobia. Violence against women is a global epidemic. If tabooizing and controlling women’s bodies and behaviors in the name of honor is the sexism of one society, the porn industry, prostitution and unhealthy beauty standards make up the other end of the patriarchal spectrum that devaluates women by reducing them to objects of men’s pleasure or property. Cross-dressing is an effective way of challenging binary notions of gender and raising awareness of issues that human beings who are not male and heterosexual encounter on a daily basis.

However, the case of Kurdish men wearing Kurdish women’s clothes is even more special, because it attacks two forms of oppression at the same time. This “punishment” is not only sexist; it further constitutes an attempt to ridicule Kurdish culture. The Islamic Republic of Iran has executed at least 56 Kurds in the past year. It continues to enforce oppressive annihilation policies towards the Kurdish people and other ethnicities, or against any dissident voice, for that matter. While the misogynist regime forces women to cover in black cloth, traditional Kurdish (and of course traditional Persian) women’s clothes are very colorful and beautifully embroidered pieces of detailed handwork. The meaning of these sequined, extravagant robes on Kurdish men is a double strike against a regime that covers, hides and silences women in plain black, discriminates against different ethnicities and believes that being an oppressive despot defines masculinity and power. After all, chauvinist concepts of gender and abusive power structures are inseparable.

But while the Iranian authorities attempted to shame male prisoners by making them wear traditional Kurdish women’s clothes, Kurdish men formidably responded by standing up against both sorts of oppression. They made two statements in one: Being a woman is NOT a punishment—and our culture is beautiful. Not being a woman, but being sexist is degrading. Not Kurdish clothes, but racism is humiliating.

Dler Kamangar, a talented musician from the beautiful East Kurdish city of Sine, agrees with Masoud that this Facebook action is just one small step in the right direction. Though media and public attention are important, future steps must be more practical, and not just remain in the social media sphere. As he drinks his black tea, he tells me that they are currently planning protest actions in front of Iranian embassies. They will appear in women’s clothes. Dler’s skepticism of the Iranian regime is surpassed by his optimism for the Kurdish people’s struggle:

I do not wait for a reform by the Iranian regime. We need to work against the negative structures in our own communities and societies. In the end, we are by ourselves. We must come up with our own solutions.

Like Dler, Masoud considers himself a feminist. He has written columns about women’s rights and men’s duty to actively challenge the male-dominated system. In his words,

Women are part of our personality, our character. If we oppress one part of our character, we oppress ourselves. If one part of us is unfree, our whole cannot be free either.

While the regimes of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria oppressed the Kurds ethnically and created hyper-masculinized forms of warfare and oppression, the Kurds have often responded with feminism. One unifying slogan echoes around all four parts of Kurdistan: “No free society without free women.” A liberated Kurdistan is, and must be, measured by women’s emancipation.

Speaking from a Kurdish woman’s perspective, my dear friend Çiğdem Orhan, a young philosophy student from Karakocan, Elazig in North Kurdistan, who is socially active in our community in Germany, adds:

This action is very meaningful and powerful, because it was started by men who stand up for women’s rights. This illustrates that women’s rights is a societal phenomenon that involves all of society, not just women. These men prove courage in overcoming their “inner man” when putting on dresses, taking pictures and posting these for the world to see. They don’t just mentally stand up for women’s rights, but do so literally in a physical sense.

The Iranian regime’s intention to signify honorlessness, embarrassment, humiliation and degradation by using womanhood has completely failed.

Crossposted from the Kurdistan Tribune

Source 

https://msmagazine.com/2013/05/03/hats-off-but-dresses-on-to-our-kurdish-feminist-brothers/

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Rapimenti, stupri, torture: così Erdogan combatte le partigiane curde Un anno fa erano le eroine da “esibire” nei salotti mediatici o sulle copertine di riviste patinate. Per la loro bellezza, prim’ancora che per la loro determinazione nel combattere per la libertà. Ora su di loro e su la loro lotta è calato il silenzio. Non fanno più notizia. Per molti, non per Globalist. È passato un anno da quando Hevrin Khalaf è stato uccisa lungo un'autostrada nel nord-est della Siria, trascinata per i capelli, picchiata e uccisa a colpi di arma da fuoco da mercenari. Le foto del suo corpo mutilato sono poi apparse sui social media, in quello che molti hanno detto essere un chiaro messaggio delle forze armate turche della regione: questo è il prezzo che pagheranno le donne curde che hanno combattuto per la liberazione. ...a morte della sua amica. E da allora le cose sono solo peggiorate, aggiunge. “La vita pubblica delle donne nella regione è diventata "invivibile", riassume Dilar Dirik, attivista e ricercatrice curda dell'Università di Oxford. Nelle chat e sui social network rimbalzano le immagini terribili di combattenti curde catturate, trascinate per i capelli e violentate dai soldati turchi o dai miliziani siriani prima di essere finite con un colpo alla nuca. I rapimenti di donne sono diventati così comuni che il progetto "Missing Afrin Women Project" ha lanciato un sito web all'inizio del 2018 per rintracciare le segnalazioni di sparizioni nella città di Afrin: dal maggio 2018 sono stati registrati 6.000 rapimenti, tra cui 1.000 donne, un rapporto di Kongra Star rivendicato in agosto. ...Una recente commissione d'inchiesta del Consiglio dei diritti umani dell'Onu sulla Siria ha evidenziato un aumento della "violenza sessuale e di genere contro le donne e le ragazze" in Siria nella prima metà del 2020. Il rapporto ha documentato che almeno 30 donne nella città curda di Tal Abyad sono state violentate nel solo mese di febbraio. "Un ex giudice ha confermato che i combattenti dell'esercito nazionale siriano sono stati accusati di stupro e di violenza sessuale durante le incursioni nelle case della regione. Tuttavia, nessuno di loro era stato condannato, ma era stato rilasciato dopo pochi giorni", osserva il rapporto. ...Swed sostiene che le forze turche "prendono di mira soprattutto le donne, come è stato evidente nel brutale attacco alla martire Khalaf". Nell'anno successivo all'omicidio, gli episodi di grave violenza contro le donne si sono trasformati in ciò che gli attivisti e i dirigenti curdi decantano come una vera e propria campagna di violenza sessuale e di assassinii mirati di figure femminili di spicco. ...la Turchia sta prendendo sistematicamente di mira le donne attiviste e i politici che sono stati in prima linea nell'organizzazione politica del Paese, usando la giustificazione che sta "neutralizzando i terroristi". Molte delle vittime femminili sono state anche mutilate con le foto dei loro corpi esposte sui social media. "Una cosa è uccidere qualcuno in guerra, ma quello che succede qui è che vanno a spogliare il corpo della donna morta e poi lo filmano e lo fanno circolare", afferma Dirik. "E' per dire: Guarda, qui stiamo disonorando la donna", aggiunge. ... Umberto De Giovannangeli

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New World Summit: Stateless State. Dilar Dirik (Kurdish Women's Movement) | Stateless Democracy: How the Kurdish Women Movement Liberated Democracy from the State Kurdish Women's Movement Dilar Dirik Chaired by: Maria Hlavajova (BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht) Dilar Dirik is an activist of the Kurdish Women’s Movement and a PhD candidate in the Sociology Department of the University of Cambridge. Her work examines the role of women in the Kurdish liberation movement, by comparing the ways in which the commitment to gender equality of different Kurdish parties is related to their stance on institutions of power. This lecture addresses the role of the Kurdish Women’s Movement in emancipating the project of national liberation within Kurdistan. Dirik will specifically address how the Kurdish Women’s Movement opposes the violence of states, but also that of male patriarchal domination. Understanding the overarching systematic oppression of society as perpetuated by the capitalist, nation-state-oriented, dominant world order, has brought the Kurdish Women’s Movement in opposition of the concept of the state. Here, the state is seen as a replication of patriarchal relations, which they believe can only be undermined through principled gender equality in radical democratic confederalism beyond power, nationalism and the state. The New World Summit: Stateless State took place at the Royal Flemish Theater in Brussels, Belgium, 19-21 September 2014

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Self-defense must thus not only fight against, but also for something, especially in the Middle East, where all forms of violence are performed on an unbearable scale. Thus, self-defense is the radical attempt at dissociating power from the patriarchal militarist system - and women must be the avant-garde militant self-defense of a self-determining, more beautiful, just, free life. Self-defense, accompanied by revolutionary thought, has the potential to bring about radical social change.

Dilar Dirik http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Kurdish-Womens-Radical-Self-Defense-Armed-and-Political-20150707-0002.html

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This week on Act Out, a special interview with Dilar Dirik on the Rojava revolution: the roots of resisting war while building an egalitarian, feminist, flat structure society in Northern Syria. First up tho, there are some upcoming actions that you need to know about.

(via ActOut! [118] - Syria: Let the Kurdish Women Lead the Way + Team Internet & Israeli Arms - YouTube)