Between gendered objectification by the media and international feminist solidarity, Kurdish women have increasingly joined women's liberation conversations around the world in the recent years. Amid their battles against the patriarchal structures around them and the total wars against their bodies, activists of the Kurdish women's movement - from the mountains to the cities - are also struggling for epistemic justice by creating their own resistance history.
This talk will analyse feminist responses to Kurdish women's efforts to articulate their own struggle concepts and write their own history. Drawing on her personal experience in research and organizing, the speaker will address the ways in which Kurdish women's representations of their own struggles are being policed and subjected to disciplinary discursive practices in different spaces.
In an era of increasing systematic violence, what is the space for critiques of women’s liberation movements? Who gets to judge what constitutes a "women's revolution"? What ethical questions arise when writing about theories by people, who are willing to die for their ideals? Are critique and solidarity mutually exclusive? What methodological approaches to research can help women co-construct struggle histories and advance collective liberation efforts?

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Dilar Dirik has recently completed her PhD at the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. She has been researching the Kurdish Women’s Liberation Movement and women’s struggles in the different parts of Kurdistan for several years. Occasionally writing on freedom struggles in Kurdistan for different international outlets, she is also actively involved in the efforts of the movement to connect with women's struggles around the world.

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Methods in Question: Epistemologies of Gender and Sexuality seminar series
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Convener: hakan sandal

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