The Mother, the Politician, and the Guerrilla

The book’s aim is not to chronicle the rich and powerful history of the Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement, which collects and keeps an extensive archive in the form of documents, diaries, and meeting notes to prevent erasure by the state and their own male comrades. Instead, the book follows images, figures, voices, flesh echoes, and reverberations. It thereby also aligns itself with the self-definition of Kurds “as having a tradition of resistance” against History with a big H. The book is situated alongside this tradition, which Kurds have built through reiterating performances, in order to imagine how the political, the relational, the temporal, and the spatial can be rebuilt in ways that are liberating. It claims that rather than a coherent history that follows the logic of cause and effect, what one finds by following these other lineages and inheritances is a feminine political imagination that informs the praxis of Kurdish women

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