#Jîyan

[hejirmewij]

Jin jîyan azadî

8 adarê jibo hemû jînên cîhanê pîroz be.

[navramanan]

persian women took the killing of a kurdish woman and the resulting jin jîyan azadî movement, inherently kurdish in its origins, and portrayed it to the world as theirs instead of acknowledging where it came from. it will never not make me angry

[indizombie]

Muslim women students experienced the hijab ban as a denial of their autonomy and agency. As the PUCL team listened to the Muslim girls’ stories close up and large, what became clear was that for them, the hijab is a visible carrier of their self-identity and a way of remaking their own world by freely negotiating with their culture’s normative values and practices. However, they have also had to struggle with their teachers’ negative assumption that they are unaware of being oppressed by their own faith and by a community that does not value education for women. Journalists and political leaders repeatedly asked, “Are they coming to college for studying or for their religion? Let them go to their madrasas if they want to prioritise the hijab.” In insisting simultaneously on their right to education as well as the right to wear the hijab, they are confronting the dominant discourse on the hijab that has obstructed their educational possibilities that have in recent years opened up in Karnataka. In doing so, they are invoking an alternative discourse of gender justice. In this respect, their struggle is at one with the rallying cry ‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadi’ (Women, Life, Freedom) of Iranian women who are protesting the custodial killing of Mahsa Amini, a young woman, by the notorious Iranian ‘morality police’ for wearing her hijab ‘too loosely.’ The slogan ‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadi’ originates in the Kurdish resistance movement in Turkey and reflects similar struggles of women for complete autonomy and liberation. As Apoorvanand and Alishan Jafri argued, ‘Though the contexts of the protests in Iran and India are different, women in both countries are making the same statement. They are telling the state that they want to live their lives as free, thinking individuals – not as dull identical clones. In both cases, it is a battle between individuals and the state for ownership of the self.’

People's Union of Civil Liberties, 'Closing the Gates of Education: Violation of rights of Muslim women students in Karnataka'

[navramanan]

"jin jiyan azadi" sprayed right next to it, meaning "woman life freedom" in kurdish. this popular slogan in kurdish feminism gained global popularity during the protests sparked upon the murder of jina mahsa amini at the hands of iranian police in 2022

"May thy riot gear chip and shatter"

Seen inside the occupied Portland State University library, where student protesters are preparing for a police raid

[1americanconservative]

@AdamRFisher

10 reasons the Kurds are more deserving of a state than the Palestinians. - Kurds are the largest stateless minority group in the Middle East with 40M people and a national identity going back centuries, unlike the Palestinians. - Kurds have a distinct language and ethnicity, unlike the Palestinians. - Kurds are tolerant, inclusive and religiously diverse, unlike the Palestinians. - Kurds were promised a state of their own by the British in 1920, when “Palestinian” still meant Jew. - Kurds actually experienced genocide during the late 1980s with chemical weapons, unlike the Palestinians. - Kurds have a history of successful self government without attacking their neighbors, unlike the Palestinians. - Kurds don’t deny the existence of other Middle Eastern states or people, unlike most Palestinians. - Kurds have been the vanguard fighting against Islamic State, Al Qaeda and others, unlike the Palestinians who have embraced and supported Islamic militancy. - Kurds fought to protect other ethnic and religious minorities like the Yazidis, Jews, Assyrians and Chaldeans, unlike the Palestinians who oppress non Muslim minorities. - The Kurdish national slogan “Jîn, Jîyan, Azadî” (Women, Life, Freedom) is more universal and acceptable than the uncompromising Palestinian slogan “From the River to the Sea.”

[nando161mando]

YPJ commander Nesrin Abdullah: We are women and we are fighting for our Freedom!

Statement by Commander of YPJ Nesrin Abdullah on 25th of November – International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women!

Second part of the video: widnet.org

🔥JIN JÎYAN AZADÎ 🔥

[eskidostumk]

"Jin", "Zan", "Kadın", "Mahila"...

Ortadoğu'da kadın demek yaşam demek, özgürlük demektir. (Jin, jîyan, âzadî)

Peki biz kadınlar kimiz, neyiz? Bunca asır neyin mücadelesini taşıyoruz sırtımızda, zihnimizde?

Sistem içerisindeki kadın 'yokluk' ifade eder.

Nedir bu yokluk?

Vâr olmayan, yaşam belirtisi göstermeyen.

Kadının varlığı ancak bir erkek ile anlam bulur düşüncesinin ürünleriyiz(!)

Afganistan'da kadınlar erkeksiz dışarıya çıkamaz, İran'da sapık zihniyetin genlerini asırlardır yaşatan 'erkek', 'sofu', 'molla'... adına her ne derseniz artık, kadınların tek bir saç telinin varlığına dahi tahammülsüz yaratıklar...

Ben kimim?

Ben Kuzey Kürdistanlı bir kadınım. Topraklarım işgal altında, sömürülen bir halkın evladıyım, dilimin varlığı dahi yok hükmünde iken ben kendimi nasıl vâr edebilirim ki?

Dilim, halkım, kadınlar, hayvanlar... Vâr etmeye çalıştığım her şey için devlet 'şefkati' büyük bir şiddet ve zorbalıkla varlığımı, izlerimi yok ediyor. Ve yeniden korkunç sistemin içerisinde yerimi gösteriyor.

Nedir, nasıldır, kimdir bu kadınlar?

Sistemin gözünde erkek ile vâr olabilen yok hükmündeki obje(!)

Hangi kadın şu âna kadar kadın kimliğini, değerini, varlığını, toplumdaki yerini sorgulayabildi?

Neden buna izin vermezler?!

Ben kimliksizim, Hindistan'daki kadın da kimliksiz; ben objeyim, Amerika'daki kadın da obje; ben ezilenim, Afganistan'daki kadın da ezilen; ben baskı görenim, İran'daki kadın da baskı gören.....

Ben yüz binlerce kadınım!

Ben kadınım!

Ne yapılmalı?

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JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava [SPANISH] The U.S. Congress will allocate more than $1 billion to Christian and Kurdish militias [UPDATES]

In the U.S. Congress, a bill has been passed to help economically the armed Sunni, Kurdish and Christian self-defense groups fighting the Islamic State and jihad. This rule will allocate a budget of $1 billion for military aid to the Iraqi army, peshmerga militias in the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, and also to local militias organized in ethnic-religious bases. The information has been highlighted by Clarion Project, an NGO that has as its mission the social struggle and awareness-raising against Islamic extremistism…

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[eliasericson]

for an international women’s day demonstration - jin, jîyan, azadî!

[tnj-36]

Jîyan meşek direje...

[ziyanolanzilam]

Jin, jîyan, azadî...

[profesorkurd21]

Ey Kurdistan'a min!

Newal û av

Ezman û tav

Hilm û jîyan

Tenê bi te, geş e.

Gerdûn û xweza

Behr û feza

Azadî û war

Tenê bi te, xweş e.

[gencnujininacilari]

Jîn

Jîyan

Azadî

[sidarserhad-blog]

Jin Jîyan Azadî . Bijî 8 ê adarê

[hivronrojger]

Jin, Jîyan, Azadî…✊🏻✌🏻

[heretic-child]

Sakine Cansız, a founding member of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and one of the leading figures in the Kurdish women’s movement, who was killed with two other female activists in Paris a decade ago, predicted today’s nationwide “Jin, Jîyan, Azadî – Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising led by Kurdish women in Iran, way back in 2011.

Cansız’s 2011 interview during a conference of the Eastern Kurdistan Women’s Union, which included an analysis of and predictions about the women’s struggle in the Kurdish-populated regions of western Iran known as Rojhilat, was published for the first time in 2022.

Cansız stresses in the interview that the Kurdish women’s struggle has the power to lead not only Kurdish women but also all Persian, Baloch and Azeri women in the region.

“Women have no friends other than the struggle for freedom,” she says.

Emphasising the historical importance of women organising in Rojhilat, Cansız says, “The greatest response to the system that stole women’s freedom from them was women joining the struggle.”

Born in Tunceli (Dersim) in eastern Turkey in 1958 and becoming one of the first pioneers of the Kurdish Women’s Movement, Cansız was imprisoned after the 12 September 1980 military coup in the infamous Diyarbakır (Amed) Prison, which would later go down in the country’s history for the inhumane treatment and torture of its prisoners.

After she was released from prison in 1991, she was among the founders of the Patriotic Women’s Association, the first Kurdish women’s institution in the metropolitan city of Istanbul.

Cansız was still an active and prominent member of the Kurdish women’s movement when she was killed in 2013 in a Kurdish information centre in Paris. The gunman, who was Turkish, allegedly had connections with the Turkish intelligence service (MİT) and as well as Cansız, he killed two other female activists; Fidan Doğan, who was at the time a diplomatic representative of the Kurdistan National Congress, and Leyla Şaylemez, a Kurdish youth movement activist.

That incident has remained unresolved and has caused great distress among the Kurds, fuelling mistrust in European institutions.