Talking Community’ with Dr Dilar Dirik, interviewed by CISRUL's Dr Hanifi Bariş

The following passage comes from the preface of Dilar Dirik's book called "The Kurdish Women's Movement: History, Theory, Practice" (2022)

In radical traditions, feminism is not about visibility or representation inside an unjust world; in fact, feminism should never be compatible with the dominant power-based system and its liberal discourses. I align with those who see feminism as a constantly evolving, critical, and self-critical resistance movement for justice and liberation, a method of radicalizing society’s freedom consciousness to organize the world differently. Chandra Talpade Mohanty (2003) refers to ‘anticapitalist transnational feminist practice’ as a way of building ‘noncolonizing’ bridges across particular and universal struggle contexts. As it is not a classical national liberation struggle, but a mass movement with a claim to a more universal struggle against dominant systems of power, the revolutionary Kurdish women’s movement’s experience and analyses are valuable to anyone interested in anti-colonial and anti-capitalist politics, feminism from below, revolutionary social change, climate justice, system-critical theory, and democracy without the state. In this sense, unconcerned with exceptionalizing Kurdish women, I hope that this book can be one of the many efforts to build transnational alliances for peace and justice against the systems that colonize, devalue, and destroy life.

Note: Even tho this video was posted 3 months ago, it looks like it was recorded in 2022. I assume this because in the intro of this video it is said that her book mentioned above was not yet published.