KURDISH WOMEN'S VOICES
Inspired by watching the film Bakur North shown at October Books in Southampton, we decided to try to pull all of our pages focusing on Kurdish Women into one place.
If we’ve missed any - just let us know!
This is the film that the Turkish Ministry of Culture tried to stop people seeing. The directors were given prison terms for terrorist propaganda.
“Any propaganda one can find in this film would be a propaganda for peace.”
— Ertuğrul Mavioğlu
PODCASTS
- FiLiA meets Houzan Mahmoud
Feminist activist, public lecturer and co-founder of Culture Project, a project formed to raise awareness about feminism and gender in Kurdistan and diaspora.- FiLiA meets: Women Defend Rojava
We, the women of Kongra Star, began the campaign Women Defend Rojava to co-ordinate international resistance in solidarity with the women of Northern and Eastern Syria and the Rojava revolution against the occupation war of the Turkish state.- FiLiA meets: Sabiha Temizkan - Speak Up For Leyla
“I end my hunger strike but continue my fight against isolation”
Leyla Güven
BLOGS
- Letter from Rojava
One of the most impressive and encouraging things about the revolutionary project in North and East Syria is its willingness to accept and work with this, to embrace diversity. Under the Autonomous Administration, people are not expected to all agree all the time.
- Rahila Gupta - A Women's Revolution In Northern Syria Fights For Its Life
The women of Rojava are seeking to build links and solidarity with the British feminist movement to find ways in which to secure the future of this fragile revolution.CONFERENCE SESSIONS
- KURDISH WOMEN'S EXPERIENCES AND POLITICAL ALTERNATIVES
With TÜLIN DAĞ, SHARA TAHIR, DIBA ALIKHANI, AVAN OMAR, HOUZAN MAHMOUD and ISABEL KÄSER- FiLiA STATEMENT: Letter to Leyla Guven
Your ‘Open Letter to the Women of the World’ was an important contribution to the Global Women’s Liberation Movement. We join you in asking that "All the women of the world need to be saying enough to fascism, enough to dictatorship!”
