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A member of the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) was killed by her brother in the Syrian town of Darbasiyyah, after she refused her male relatives’ demands that she not join the women fighters. kurdistan24.net/en/news/d0a689…

h/t @rizikaoikonomik
“Violence against women is one of the most common violations of human rights, but most of these violations are not reported because of the absence of penalty,” said Kongra-Star, a confederation of women’s organizations
“We,as women’s movement,call on all the women, civil rights institutions and the civic society institutions to take a rapid initiative to stop these crimes and not to be slow in holding the criminal accountable and applying the heaviest penalty so we can see that justice is done”
Thomas McClure, a Syria-based researcher at the Rojava Information Center, told Kurdistan 24 that the YPJ, established in 2013, is known the world over for their efforts to establish a new form of autonomous, female-led democracy in northeastern Syria. Image
The local Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) promotes and enshrines women’s rights into their laws, bu women living in areas under their control “continue to face major violence and oppression in the family home.” Image
Kongra-Star and other women’s rights recently launched a campaign called “She did not commit suicide, you killed her” after an increase in murders of women there and in other deaths that were officially ruled suicide, but where so-called honor killing is strongly suspected.
The YPJ played a central role in routing Daesh/ISIS from their Syrian stronghold. Read this about the anarchist feminist revolution in northern Syria - @gaylelemmon defenseone.com/ideas/2018/02/…
I wrote about YPJ, #Kurdish women’s resistance and what ISIS/Daesh feared the most (feminism and women’s equality) for @MsMagazine in 2016 Image
And here is a thread with other articles about the YPJ and the anarchist feminist revolution

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Sep 16
On Sept 16, 2022, Mahsa Jina Amini’s death in police custody sparked the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising in Iran

3 essays I wrote in solidarity

Glory and power to the women in Iran who seized the narrative and become object and subject.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-women-…
You think those girls flipping their theocrats off in the schoolroom in Iran will leave their rage behind in that room when they go home?

You think those schoolgirls chanting “Death to the dictator” do not go home and see the dictator there as well?

feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-g…
Dear White Women Cheering Iranian Women:

As you watch the glory and power of the feminist revolution against theocrats in Iran, ask yourself where the fuck is your feminist revolution against theocrats in the U.S. feministgiant.com/p/essay-dear-w…
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Aug 13
FEMINIST GIANT Global Roundup curated by Samiha Hossain:

-Women & Girls in Mali
-LGBTQ+ Nigerians Demand Justice
-Remembering Tina Fontaine
-Queer Black South African Art
-Britain Muslim Women Self-Defense feministgiant.com/p/global-round…
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Friday’s Global Roundup curated by Samiha Hossain:

-Bulgaria LGBTQ+ Rights
-Sudanese Women Activists
-Muslim Women in Britain
-Philly Queer Birding Group
-China Women’s Secret Language feministgiant.com/p/global-round…
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Jul 29
“…they were not playing at all, they knew exactly what they were doing…They knew the weak points of the boat, and they knew how to sink it,”

Orcas smashed a $128k yacht into pieces in the Mediterranean in a 2hr attack h/t @Cosmic_Surfer @rerutled thedailybeast.com/killer-whales-…
My love letter to Gladis Blanca, the killer whale that scientists believe began the yacht ramming along with her mother, two sisters and two daughters. It has spread since to other Orcas

feministgiant.com/p/dear-gladis
"Some scientists who have studied the yacht-strike pattern believe that it is a form of play: the whales are all juveniles from the same pod, and may simply enjoy slamming sailboat rudders to watch the boats spin around."
Read 8 tweets
Jul 8
Alice Munro chose her husband over the daughter he sexually abused.

The reason that you're seeing any defense or attempt to "understand" or deny that horror is because it's a reminder of how easily women become footsoldiers of the patriarchy.
Fame and wealth notwithstanding.

Alice Munro had both and still sold her daughter out in favour of the patriarchy.

And she reminds too many other women of how easily they footsoldier for the patriarchy too.
I have perhaps just one short story by Munro.

Her "legacy" means nothing to me.

And it should mean nothing to anyone now learning of her complicity in the sexual abuse of her daughter.

Yes, we're all "complicated" people but there's nothing complicated about enabling abuse. It's wrong.
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Jun 24
In 1977, two years before the Soviet invasion, revolutionary women’s rights activist Meena founded RAWA (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan) to fight patriarchy at every level in her country. feministgiant.com/p/fist-in-the-…

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Shaima, an early member of RAWA, has explained that women in Afghanistan had to be mushti dar dahan, a term in Dari that means "a fist in the mouth," towards the men in their families, and also to society and government–i.e. State, Street, and Home. feministgiant.com/p/fist-in-the-…
All my essays are free to read and share.

Subscribe and get them delivered to your inbox. It's free--no paywall or ads.

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Apr 10
White & Christian are considered norm and not dangerous in the U.S. 👇🏽

"GOP Sen Anthony Kern & his prayer team of anti-abortion extremists praying in tongues (that’s not an audio issue) that an 1864 law banning nearly all abortion becomes law again."
It's easy to see the fascists and theocrats when they don't look like you. When they're white and Christian, their danger has not registered enough:

Arizona State Senator Leads Prayer In Tongues On Floor Before Abortion Ruling huffpost.com/entry/anthony-…
Fascism doesn't happen overnight. Theocracy is not built in a day.

Rights are not guaranteed nor set in stone.

History is not a linear march towards "progress." feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ha…
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