If to us, those who in a small dot of the map complied with the duty that we announced, and put to the struggle’s service this little that we are allowed to give: our lives, our sacrifice, it will be our turn one of these days, to take a last breath on any given land, […]
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Reflections About Man, Masculinity and Patriarchal Society
by Rok Brossa, https://internationalistcommune.com/masculinity/ Qamişlo, summer-autumn 2017 Notes for a Historic-Subjective Analysis on the Construction and the Evolution of the ‘Man’ Identity in the Patriarchal Society Redefining our role as men in society Learning to think, feel and live in equality Unlearning inoculated dynamics in socialization Coming together in the struggle for emancipation. The cultural […]
JINEOLOJÎ: Conference dedicated to the science of women in Northern Syria
written by Kimmie Taylor (Day 1) On Friday 12th January, women gathered in the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria in the city of Derek for the first ever conference on Jineology in Northern Syria; the science of women aimed at developing a sociology, and practice behind it, based on truth and equality. Women from every […]
Jineoloji: The science of women’s liberation in the Kurdish movement
The next article of Marcel Cartier was published on Kurdish Question in two parts (1 and 2) on june 2016 After the first week I spent in Northern Syria had come and gone, a friend of mine in the United States sent me an animated text message to check up on me: ‘Yo! How’s it […]
Revolutionary Education – by Janet Biehl
TWO ACADEMIES IN ROJAVA Over the past thirty years, instructor Dorşîn Akîf told us, women participated in the Kurdish freedom movement, first as fighters, then in women’s institutions. Three years ago Kurdish women produced Jineolojî, or “women’s science,” which they regard as the culmination of that decades-long experience. At the academy in Rimelan, students are first […]
Why Jineolojî? Re-Constructing the Sciences towards a Communal and Free Life
Gönül Kaya is a journalist and representative of the Kurdish women’s movement. This article is the transcript of her speech at the Jineolojî Conference in March 2014 in Cologne, Germany. The Free Women’s Movement of Kurdistan evaluates Jineolojî as an important step in its ongoing intellectual, ideological-political self-defense and mobilization struggle of about 30 […]
‚Gyneology‘ in the Search of Truth
the following work about Jineolojî was published by DÖKH, the Democratic Free Women’s Movement in Northern Kurdistan on July 17th 2013 here “The realities to be disclosed by gyneology will of course not have less true words than the knowledge produced by many disciplines as theology, eschatology, politic, pedagogy and sociology. It is a well-known fact […]