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Kurdish Women's Movement: ECR Reading Group

This is our second reading group focused on the Kurdish Women's Movement. Please RSVP to get the Zoom link at info@defendrojava.org. If you can't make it this time, let us know and we'll send you an invite to the next monthly session the first Friday of October.

Readings include:

1. Chapter 3 from Handan Çağlayan's book Mothers, Comrades, Goddesses (34 pages):

2. An article by anthropologist Isabel Kaser titled "Mountain Life is Difficult but Beautiful!: The Gendered Processes of Becoming "Free" in PKK Education." (16 pages):

3. Watch the section on women in the documentary Bakur: Inside the PKK. The recommended section is between 23:30 and 29:00:

If you can't read/watch them all, you are still welcome to join the discussion!

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