#Syrian women

[brownwomanisland]

Afghan girls, Sudanese girls, Congolese girls, Palestinian girls and all the women of colour whose pain is justified away because "it's the region/the religion/the culture and those things never change", we remember you on Women's day. How I feel is until all women everywhere can live life totally free, we're all a few fascist moves from losing the little autonomy we have in our countries.

May we all one day experience total woman victory where all our sisters live fully autonomous lives free from violence, harm, control and subterfuge.

[herstory-storiesaboutwomen]

Women in Syria Have Created a Feminist Commune Free of Patriarchy and Capitalism

By Prachi Gupta  |  December 3, 2018 | 5:20pm

With the aid of women’s rights groups and volunteers, a group of women in Syria have created a self-sustainable feminist commune outside of the structures of patriarchy and capitalism.

The village of Jinwar—a word that roughly translates to “woman’s space” or “women’s land” in Kurdish—is in the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria (also known as Rojava), which became a de facto autonomous region in 2012 amid the ongoing Syrian Civil War. According to Kurdish news outlet ANF News, the village is primarily for women whose families suffered violence by ISIS, which massacred Yazidi men and raped and tortured thousands of women. Widows and women without families can all apply to live there as well. Jinwar opened on International Day Against Violence Against Women, November 25, with 30 homes, a school, museum, and medical center.

[femsy]

Al-Ahli vs. Al-Yarmouk 🏀

[onbreakreadlastpost]

Women are at risk under Syria’s new government, and the international community must push for women’s rights

The torture, sexual violence and social stigma faced by Syria's women prisoners

Dealing with immense trauma, women survivors of Assad's prisoners are struggling to return to a sometimes unwelcome society

I GREATLY ENCOURAGE EVERYONE to please consider donating to one or more groups that support women in Syria and/or fundraisers that support women in Syria. Links to find them below!

Please share and reblog this post and/or one or more group/fundraiser!

Charities/NGOs

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Fundraisers

[feministfang]

You’re a feminist and asking me to put aside my thoughts on ISIS?? I assume either you’re a muslim woman or one of those stupid leftists i am talking about. A quick google research will tell you how these terrorists had mass raped Yezidi women, sold them into sex slavery, burned and killed them. I am happy for the Syrian women for their freedom from Bashar but i am not gonna sit and celebrate with them like a fool. Because what you’re celebrating is the victory of ISIS not women. Women are still not free. Now that these islamist terrorists have rose into power, it will be far worse for those women. So put aside your jihadi-apologist mindset and stop glorifying ISIS. It’s quite similar to how everyone celebrated the victory of Taliban in Afghanistan and we all know what happened next.

In every war, young girls and women always suffer regardless of what side of men are victorious.

The freedom fighters of Syria liberal leftists are cheering on are literally ISIS terrorists. Seriously what the fuck is wrong with liberals?? They used to be against terrorist islamist regimes, and now that muslims have radicalised themselves after Palestine-Israel war, liberals are so scared to even utter a word against islamist terrorists to not get labelled "Islamophobic". Notice their silence on Afghan women and Iranian women now! Quite deafening but they used to speak up for them. As i have always believed, liberals are stupid cowards who try to fit in every majority group and endorse their ideologies just to be on the safe side. And they call themselves liberals.

[newhistorybooks]

This fascinating book enriches US women's labor history, complicates histories of Syrian immigration, and foregrounds the ways Syrian American workers resisted US empire. Connecting diverse geographies and modes of production, Stacy Fahrenthold highlights the significance of gendered labor and Syrian American workers in the globalizing US textile and garment industry.

[neechees]

Tia and Piujuq (2018) ᑏᐊ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐱᐅᔪᖅ

dir. Lucy Tulugarjuk.

[bbc-breeding-wife-gabi]

[nanshe-of-nina]

Women’s History Meme || Women from Ancient History (or legends) (3/5) ↬ Septima Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra (c. 240 – c. 274)

Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, and self-proclaimed Empress, is one of the heroines of the ancient world who has inspired successive generations of scholars, writers, librettists and musicians, playwrights and actors. In the modern western world she is slightly less well known than Cleopatra; in the east she is still supreme, as demonstrated by the massive response throughout the Arab world to the television series called Anarchy (Al-Abadid) broadcast in Syria in 1997. The role of the Empress Zenobia was played by a very famous and beautiful Arab actress, Raghda, and her struggle against the Romans was depicted in twenty-two episodes watched by millions of people. For political reasons, but by controversial calculations, Zenobia claimed descent from Cleopatra, who was neither Arab nor Egyptian, but a Macedonian Greek. The writers of the television series emphasized Zenobia’s iconic Arab origins, but in fact, as a Palmyrene, Zenobia combined elements of Aramaic and Arabic ancestry. The population of Palmyra was descended from an amalgamation of various tribes of different ethnic backgrounds, and their language was a dialect of Aramaic. As the heroic and ultimately tragic Queen of Palmyra, Zenobia ranks with two other heroines of ancient history: the British Queen Boudicca and Cleopatra, who stood firm for their principles and their people, defied their oppressors, and were ultimately defeated. In each case the tragedy is all the more poignant because all three queens were the last of their lines, and after their deaths, each of their kingdoms disappeared, absorbed by Rome. These heroic women passed into legend as a result of their individual struggles and tragic fates, and the simple fact that they were women, who ruled as capably, and fought just as fiercely, as kings. Their enduring fame far outstrips the quantity and quality of the information about them. — Empress Zenobia: Palmyra’s Rebel Queen by Pat Southern

[brownwomanisland]

Any Syrian sisters on the timeline? How are y'all feeling?

[artfilmfan]

The Green Border (Agnieszka Holland, 2023)

[femsy]

Sham Al-Assad 🐎

[majestativa]

When my self aligns within the shade of Your moon, I become the passage of Your Meaning and Manifestations.

— Suha al-Abed, Women of Sufism: A Hidden Treasure, transl by Nuha al-Abed, (2003)

[quotelr]

It’s not a bad thing, if you’re responsible about it. Just don’t start having boyfriends. Wait until you’ve found your husband.” “And how am I supposed to find a husband if I can’t have a boyfriend until then?” I asked ironically.

Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin

[underthewingsofthblackeagle]

[yiddishlore]

Woodcut illustration of a Jewish woman from Syria.

From De gli habiti antichi, et moderni di diuerse parti del mondo (1590) by Cesare Vecellio.