A Woman’s Place is Rojava
The frontline of feminist anti-fascism in Northeast Syria in Conversation with YPJ Commander Arzi Hesen
Register for the event here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkcOmurjopHNFaO2DkhzoIutuXCFnh0XhX
Women Defend Rojava Committee UK
Over the past decade, the women fighters of the Kurdish-led forces inn Northeast Syria have inspired our admiration and our hope for a better world. Against all odds, these courageous women took up arms and defeated the Islamic State caliphate, while simultaneously fighting for a radical re-imagining of women’s liberation rooted in the Middle East and the Kurdistan Freedom Movement.
To mark International Women’s Day, we are joined by the Commander of the YPJ Women’s Defence Forces, Arzi Hesen, to discuss the challenges and victories of the women’s movement in Northeast Syria and how revolutionary understandings of self defence have shaped one of the most inspirational and successful social movements of our times.