In the quest to dominate society and woman the capitalist system has systematically removed us from ourselves, from our own identity. A person who knows oneself will also understand the system. Cigdem Dogu, a member of the KJK (Komelen Jinen Kurdistan, Kurdistan Women’s Community) Executive Council answers and poses questions on the struggle to get…
Women organise themselves autonomously within Kurdistan Liberation Movement. What is behind it and how does it work? Çiğdem Doğu (KJK) explains the ideological and structural approach of the Kurdish women’s liberation movement. Çiğdem Doğu, a coordinating member of the KJK (Kurdistan Women’s Community), spoke in a programme on Jin TV about the “organising” aspect of…
Topics such as ethics-aesthetics, free life in partnership, Xwebûn, the transformation of the male are the subjects that generate the most lively discussions and interest. In these courses, the most intimate issues, which are often referred to as private life, can be discussed and questioned without any anxiety. Education is a woman’s work in its…
Abstract: Ecology, along with women’s liberation and radical democracy, is one of the major pillars of Democratic Confederalism, a new political paradigm developed by the Kurdish Freedom Movement through the voice of the PKK’s leader, Abdullah Öcalan. Scholars attribute the greening of the Kurdish agenda to the impact that the founder of Social Ecology, Murray…
The democratic forces that base their struggle for freedom, democracy and equality on the historical heritage of communal mother-based society will soon realise that through a more adequate historical-sociological analysis of their society they can better self-critically question defeats in their own history of resistance and thus develop more promising forms of organisation, programme, strategy…
The conference Our Revolution: Liberating life, organized by the Network of Women Weaving the Future and promoted by the Kurdish Women’s Movement, was taken place on 5 and 6 November in Berlin. The interview was made before the conference. This conference stems from the need to strengthen the transnational organization of alliances between different women/feminist…
News of the killing of Nagihan Akarsel, a committed feminist activist and scholar, outside her home in Sulaymaniyah shocked the world on Tuesday morning, 4th of October 2022. In memory of Nagihan Akarsel we publish the following contribution by Zîlan Diyar, from the Jineolojî Committee Europe. I wanted to start with a poem. Then I…
We publish Ann-Kristin Kowarsch’s contribution to the conference “Challenging Capitalist Modernity—Alternative Concepts and the Kurdish Quest” which took place in Hamburg, Germany, 3-5 February 2012. The paper raises critiques for the role, methodology and institutions of modern social science and presents the theory and practice of Jineolojî and Women’s academies in Kurdistan. Since the paper…
19 July marks the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the Rojava revolution. To mark the occasion, the Academy of Democratic Modernity spoke with Asya Abdullah, coordinator of the women’s movement in northern and eastern Syria, about the women’s revolution and its prehistory. We want to talk to you today about the women’s revolution in…
Patriarchy does not merely subsist on structures which are out of our influence and control. In fact, the patriarchal mindset is one that has been passed on over societies and generations, and one which changes its character depending on the historical place and time. Today, we are confronted with other mechanisms of oppression than the…
