In her writings, speeches, and life, Nagihan showed how emotion, intuition, meaning can be intertwined with thought and action in a period when we are constantly exposed to hardened and dogmatized knowledge and practices. Hers was a great mastery, and it always amazed the others.
The murder of Nagihan Akarsel,...
The problem is not that women’s bodies are a matter of medicine. It’s rather that women’s bodies are not a matter of medicine beyond sexist norms that stem from patriarchy which are projected on diseases/conditions particular to women.
In this article, I will mainly try to demonstrate how the historical...
The protests that started in Iran after the murder of Jîna (Mahsa) Amînî by the morality police on September 17, completed its first month. Feminists in the diaspora also organized quite actively during this time. We started to think about what we can do since we are already in...
Does our fear of the perpetrator make our respect for the perpetrator higher and our expectations lower compared to other people, or is just not being seen/heard always more severe than the violence itself?
Warning: the article contains spoilers.
Will and Testament is a novel written by Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth...
They want women to accept to be slaves to men and give up their demands for right “in order not to give way to LGBTI+”, – on the other hand, the government should continue with the phrase “of course we don’t have a problem with women’s rights”.
“The family consists...
The second edition of Filma. Feminist Film Festival based in Ukraine, took place online between November 24 - December 9, 2022. The festival’s program focuses on the films about migration caused by the war and dedicated to the ones who have been forced to leave their homes because of...
It seems to me that feminist utopia can only be intuitive, since the feminist movement is not a social project that adapts itself to a predetermined telos; it does not consist of coherent stops that follows a sequence; with no guarantee it will eventually succeed.
The first ever feminist utopia...
We had the chance to meet with the Kurdish women's movement and its institutions that came together under the roof of Tevgera Jinên Azad (Free Women's Movement - TJA) in Diyarbakır when we went to 2022 Amed Newroz as a group of feminist women. We met or re-met with...
We had the chance to meet with the Kurdish women's movement and its institutions that came together under the roof of Tevgera Jinên Azad (Free Women's Movement - TJA) in Diyarbakır when we went to 2022 Amed Newroz as a group of feminist women. We met or re-met with...
Our activism concerns, on the one hand, self-education circles that lead to an event or an open discussion in the squatters' space and, on the other hand, actions of intervention and assertion of the public space through posters, text distribution, microphones and marches.
First of all, can you tell us...