Educational Series in in Germany

The Kurds – a people without a state and with centuries of resistance. For just as long, Kurdish women have been fighting against colonialism and patriarchal oppression. Whether fascist dictatorship, Baath or Assad regime, or the Islamic Republic – the colonial states in which Kurds live have always also attacked women and their rights.

The Kurdish woman has always stood last in line – both as a member of her people and as a woman.

In Bakur (North Kurdistan), the Kurdish women’s movement has regularly filled the streets on March 8 in recent years – against the Turkish state’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, against femicides, and against patriarchal violence. In the prisons of the Turkish state and in the ranks of urban guerrilla forces, women have been shaking the foundations of the fascist regime for decades.

In Rojhilat (East Kurdistan), women fought in the front lines against the Shah monarchy and continue to do so today against the Islamic Republic – as in the Komala and many other organizations. The women’s uprising sparked in 2022 by the murder of the Kurdish woman Jina Emini spread from East Kurdistan across the entire Iran and into the whole world.

In Başûr (South Kurdistan), women put up fierce resistance against the Baath regime under Saddam Hussein and continue to fight today against the societal silence surrounding domestic violence and honor killings.

And finally, today we have a women’s revolution in Rojava, which places the issue of women’s liberation in the Middle East firmly on the agenda with great determination and resolve.

The Kurdish women’s movement has now become a model for anti-patriarchal struggles worldwide. Women in many places today fight with the concrete example of a living women’s revolution at their side – an example they can draw inspiration from and take as a model.

On the occasion of International Women’s Day (March 8), we want to make the resistance of women across all of Kurdistan more widely known and dedicate an educational series to them.

Come join us in the following cities:

Leipzig, 27th February | 6pm
Eisenbahnstr. 53 04315 Leipzig

Hamburg, 28th February | 3pm
AstA Uni Hamburg (Room 0029)
von-Melle-Park 5 20146 Hamburg

Berlin, 1st March | 4pm
MaHalle, Waldemarstr. 110 10997 Berlin

Stuttgart, 12th March | 5:30pm , Böblingerstr. 105