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Women and nature are both exploited under capitalist patriarchy - both legally and illegally. In addition, the climate crisis already disproportionately impacts women, who comprise 70% of the world's poor and face barriers to migration. Ecofeminism looks to women and nature for solutions to a man-made problem.
Lisa-Marie (FiLiA CEO) was introduced to the issue of the Kurdish struggle by Rahila Gupta. FiLiA recognised the potential of the Kurdish women's struggle to inform our understanding of the potential for liberation and has platformed Kurdish women's voices at conference, and in our blogs and podcasts, as well as attending in-person solidarity meetings. For this contribution, Rahila Gupta, author and activist, was invited to shape an interview with Kongra Star, the women's umbrella group leading the women's revolution in Rojava, North and East Syria. Kongra Star did what they do so well ‒ they used a collaborative approach and invited contributions from many women's groups in the region. The result is an extraordinary piece and one that we are very pleased to share with you on International Women's Day.
How does one start with women in motion and end up with a women's movement? I want to share one of my last bike trips with the audience. I'm a woman on the go, meeting women along the way. I want to share how biking helps me on a daily basis. For me, biking is not only a means of transport, but a way of liberation, giving me a sense of freedom. It is also about women taking up public space and connecting together. I've noticed that the women I meet on the road are often isolated, with a need and a desire to connect with other women. I'd like us to be able to meet up on the same road, women on bikes, and share a stretch of the road together, an episode in our lives. A women's cycling movement! I want women who read my piece to find inspiration, if not join the movement to help them break any of the patriarchal chains that oppress us.
Halaleh Taheri, founder & executive Director of MEWSo looks at the right to access an abortion, a right that the women’s movement including British women, fought long and hard for over many decades and which is now under serious attack all over the world from America to Asia to the Far East, and even in Britain.
EcoFeminist legends Vandana Shiva, Farida Akhter, and Susan Hawthorne have highlighted the role of women in the ecological movement throughout their lives. In this episode of the FiLiA podcast, they discuss how environmental destruction is based on the patriarchal mindset, from the language we use to the way we relate to the natural world.
"We still have daughters, aunties, mothers, cousins, and two-spirit relatives who have never been found and whose perpetrators have never been brought to justice. There is clear evidence that the epidemic of MMIW is directly linked to fossil fuel production." Tara Houska, Couchiching First Nation Anishinaabe and founder of Giniw Collective
Polly’s extraordinary passage from Life to beyond the veil of Death contains the potent seed of a new narrative for Humanity.
When those of us who knew and loved her, heard of the serious health challenge she was facing, the outpouring of messages, offers for support, love and healing sent to her from all across the world was an energetic tsunami of loving intention.
