The slogan of “Women, Life, Freedom” is reverberated across the globe after the brutal killing of Mahsa Jina Amini, a young Kurdish woman, while in custody of the Islamic State’s “Morality Police.” The slogan first coined by Kurdish feminist fighters in Rojava (Northern Syria) in 2014, now is embraced by millions worldwide who demand basic human rights, dignity, justice, democracy, and freedom. In recent decades new feminist movements are resurging with radical and creative ideas to stand against the rise of authoritarian patriarchal racist colonialist capitalist structures of power. The uprising in Iran, led by young women, is imbued with enormous potential for forging a renewed transnational feminist solidarity. How is this international feminist solidarity possible? How can we advance our feminist theoretical approaches to respond to the complexity of the relationship between capitalist imperialism, fundamentalism, and the rise of neoliberal right wing fascism?
Dr. Mojab will be presented by way of Zoom. To attend via Zoom, please email cfls@allard.ubc.ca to register to receive the Zoom information.
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