#palestinian feminists

[poetessinthepit]

Excerpt from the "Woman in Palestine Wikipedia Entry"

[violottie]

"On International Women's Day, 9-year-old reporter Lama Abo Jamous sheds light on the plight of Palestinian women from a Rafah displacement camp. Her reporting emphasizes the contrast between global celebrations of emancipation and the reality faced by these women, who bear unimaginable burdens." from Translating Falasteen, 08/Mar/2024:

[genuinelyshallow]

" Even though it's getting worse, even though it's just as devastating as Al Shifa hospital being bombed, fewer people are talking about us. They've forgetten us"

These messages were sent by many Palestinians in different words.

Please don't stop talking about them.

Don't get distracted by the entertainment industry. Much more important things need your attention. Lives depend on it

[hussyknee]

Alt text included in everything but the art. Not sure how to describe those. If anyone wants to try I can add it to the alt.

[jareckiworld]

Mona Hatoum — Triangulation (glass beads, wire, and leather, 2022)

[i-am-aprl]

One of the most horrific stories that has come out of Gaza was reiterated and retold yesterday in London as women marched with the testimony in their hands.

Photos taken by @beardvoyage

[morallyrainyday]

happy mother's day to palestinian mothers. happy mother's day to palestinian mothers who have lost children. happy mother's day to palestinians who have lost their mothers. happy mother's day to palestinian mothers older than israel itself. happy mother's day to palestinian mothers who have escaped the gaza strip. happy mother's day to palestinian mothers still living in the gaza strip.

happy mother's day to all palestinian mothers. 🇵🇸✊❤

[heavenlyyshecomes]

We curated this feminist reading list as a resource for anyone seeking new feminist reading by Palestinian authors. Many Palestine-focused reading lists have been created, but we did not find one centering on feminism. In consultation with Palestinian authors and publishing professionals, we created a list of recently published books for adult readers in various genres. We were focused on including resources published within the past five years, although a few older essential reads are also included. This is not a comprehensive list by any means. We define feminist broadly, but as feminists who create syllabi and reading lists, we work in the context of many feminists overlooking Palestinian work entirely. We create this resource as an intervention of sorts, given the rising censorship and suppression of Palestinian authors and writers. Our intention is to create a resource for anyone seeking new reading, hosting feminist book clubs, or adding new options to their feminist course syllabi. We recommend you purchase the books from the Books for Palestine Bookshop.

[ind1g3n0us-lev1t3]

Hamas Terrorists Dress Up Female Hostages in Doll Clothes and Treat Them as 'Sex Toys,' Former Captive Testifies

Feminists, Womens rights activists, break your silence.

[feministfang]

Why is pro-watermelon 🍉 gang keep saying this is the first time they are seeing a live genocide and still nobody cares?? No this isn’t your first time!

Women around the world have been slaughtered, murdered, raped, and facing all other kinds of oppression since the dawn of time. There is already a world’s oldest and biggest genocide that is still happening today. And that is femicide.

But nobody seems to care about that because according to them there’s a "gender war" going on. I wonder if these watermelon people would be protesting and boycotting the same way if it was only the Palestinian women suffering in this genocide.

None of these people ever fought with this much vehemence for women in iran, for afghan women, for sudanese women, women in Congo, and all other women who are suffering around the world.

In fact, they’re busy glamorising terrorists like Hezbollah and Khamenieh (however the fuck you spell it) and mourning the deaths of the likes of iran’s terrorist leader who died in helicopter crash just because these bearded devils chanted "free-palestine" two, three times.

More than seventy per cent of the people who have been killed in this genocide are women and children. But the only time i see the pro-Palestine m@les talking about it is when they wanna blame it all on feminists. "WhErE aRe tHe fEmInIsTs?" "WhErE aRe tHe liBerAlS?"

Just shut the fuck up and tell me where are all the anti-feminist men and women who love to say m@n should be the leaders?? Where are all the muslim and christian conservative bigots who keep saying shit like women should obey men and men should lead?? These are your leaders now!

Muslim women commenting "BoYcOTT" under every female influencer’s post promoting an israeli brand while at the same time cooking and cleaning like slaves for their husbands so these men could become the next big leaders oppressing women using their power.

If you wanna boycott anything, then boycott these men. Stop coddling them and stop doing anything for them. Instead, use all that energy in making yourself a powerful leader.

But no, FemInIsts aRe sO eVil aNd wRonG fOr tElliNg wOmEn tO sToP coNfOrMinG tO gEndEr rOLes. FeMinIsTs hAve rUiNed EvEryThInG fOr wOmEn. ThEy aRe sOciEty bReAkeRs!

It’s not the feminists fault that there’s a genocide going on, it’s the men’s. Men are the ones who vote for these male politicians. Men are the ones who worship these male leaders. Men are the ones who ruin everything for women. The enemy is exposed yet your rage is directed in the wrong direction.

There’s not one male world leader who is not destroying the planet with his evilness. But all i see is comparisons being made about which one of them is more evil; the islamic ones or the zionist ones or the white ones??

Listen! Idgaf about your free palestine land or the entire boycott list of brands. I don’t even care about your brave palestinian m@les dying either. Y’all cry about pregnant palestinian women having a hard time and feminists doing nothing for them, but who the fuck is impregnating them????

Women of Palestine should be freed from both israel and Palestinian men. That’s just what i care about. And women of Israel should be freed from these men too. No, they don’t deserve to be raped or killed just because they support Israel. It’s not even palestine vs Israel, it’s men vs women; where men are the oppressors on both sides and women are the victims on both sides. Every war has always been a genocide against women.

[shimtarofstupidity]

https://www.change.org/p/open-the-rafah-crossings-to-the-people-in-gaza?signed=true

[poetessinthepit]

Some facts for those who want to purplewash Palestinian society and portray it as anti-women:

- Palestine has one of the highest percentages of educated women in both the MENA region and the world. Palestinian culture encourages women to get university degrees, and this is not a recent development but something that has become the norm over the last 50 years.

- Women across Palestine have had active involvement in resistance movements for over a 100 years, and during the first Intifada, the women's liberation movement played a vital leadership role with women fighting both for their rights as women and as Palestinians. Palestinian women during the first intifada invented some pretty ingenious organizing strategies, such as disguising their political meetings as homemaking groups and hiding their political pamphlets in loaves of bread.

- There is no mandatory hjiab anywhere in Palestine aside from some high school dress codes in Gaza.

None of this is to say that Palestinian society is not a patriarchal society deserving of feminist critique, but it is to say the picture of Palestinian women painted by Israeli propaganda is not accurate, and any assumption that it is accurate is easily impressed upon ignorant westerners who see muslim majority nations as a total monolith.

[violottie]

don't feel helpless. you're not speaking up for Palestine alone. the world, humanity, is with you.

"From Sanaa to Glasgow, and Ramallah to Barcelona, people around the world are showing solidarity with Palestinians. Israel has killed at least 28,985 Palestinians in Gaza since Oct. 7. This is what it looks like when the world stands together to demand an end to Israel’s attacks." from AJ Plus, 18/Feb/2024:

[motherofplatypus]

Assareli physically attacked a woman

This post has been compiled in Record of Genocide.

[yacoupalnahal]

Please share, repost and support me to save my life🥺🍉🙏

I am Yacoub from Gaza. I lost my job in the war on Gaza. I had a grocery store and I was helping my family with expenses and I was meeting the needs of my home, but the war destroyed the store and destroyed my dreams and everything. Now I cannot buy my family’s needs because I lost my job and my source of livelihood. I hope you will help me so I can. Compensation, if anything is simple, and also to be able to buy winter clothes for my daughter. Please, and until now I have not been able to buy a new tent because I do not have money. I hope that you will look at me with mercy and donate to me, even if it is a simple thing.

[i-am-aprl]

Women in Israeli Damoun prison are exposed to aggravated retaliatory penalties.

The Commission of Detainees' Affairs emphasized that women detainees in Damoun prison, especially those who have been arrested from Gaza, are suffering from difficult detention conditions and exposed to aggravated penalties on a daily basis.

According to Addameer Organization, the majority of Palestinian women prisoners are subjected to some form of psychological torture and ill-treatment throughout the process of their arrest and detention, including various forms of sexual violence that occur such as beatings, insults, threats, body searches, and sexually explicit harassment. Upon arrest, women detainees are not informed where they are being taken and are rarely explained their rights during interrogation.

The Commission confirmed that the Israeli occupation forces have mounted a massive detention campaign afflicting women in the West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza, indicating that all of them have been subjected to torture and assault during arrest and investigation.

The commission stated that the IPS intended to isolate women detainees, committing the worst crimes against them, represented in:

- sudden inspection at any moment

- they suffer from the cold weather, due to lack of clothes and covers

- poor quality and quantity food

- overcrowding in cells and rooms due to the high number of detainees in the same place

- IPS confiscated all electrical appliances such as radios and TVs, etc.

The commission demonstrated that the aforementioned practices represent a small part of their suffering, and called on the international community to denounce the Israeli practices against Palestinian detainees, in which they violated international norms and laws.

Disclaimer: the first picture was a reenactment of a street play to bring awareness to the cause of unjust detentions by Israeli forces.