Jun 22, 2019 | Women’s Emancipation, Gender and Sexual minorities |
Women have played a key role in the protests in Sudan since December 2018, and continue to do so since the fall of the dictator al-Bashir in April 2019. The level of women’s participation and their role in organizing daily struggles is unprecedented in the country’s...
Feb 7, 2019 | Women’s Emancipation, Gender and Sexual minorities |
by Lara al-Kateb and Omar Abbas with contributions from Selin Cagatay, Frieda Afary, Fatemeh Masjedi and socialist feminists inside Iran The Me Too movement against sexual assault and rape has animated women throughout the world. In the Middle East too, despite...
Oct 24, 2018 | Political Analyses, Women’s Emancipation, Gender and Sexual minorities |
Below is an interview with Ali Adubisi, Director of the European Saudi Organization for Human Rights, which is currently working on defending Israa al-Ghomgham. Al-Ghomgham has been in pretrial detention in Saudi Arabia for the past three years and might be...
Oct 15, 2018 | Women’s Emancipation, Gender and Sexual minorities |
Starting Saturday November 17, 2018, 2:30-5:30 p.m. Art Share L.A., 801 E. 4th Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90013 This seven-part class series will critically examine four of the main socialist feminist theories of gender oppression: Social Reproduction, Alienation,...
Sep 10, 2018 | Women’s Emancipation, Gender and Sexual minorities |
There appears to be an orientalist disposition by Western society towards progressive movements in the Middle East. . . There is the assumption that aims for democracy in the Middle East by Middle Easterners, and even more so by Middle Eastern women are overly...
Jul 9, 2018 | Women’s Emancipation, Gender and Sexual minorities |
The existence of extremist militant groups in Idlib province is the justification given by the regime and its Russian ally for continuing aerial assault. Yet these airstrikes, which usually target residential areas and vital civilian infrastructure, and which maim and...