https://znetwork.org/category/topic/vision-strategy/feminist-vision/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Fri, 26 Dec 2025 16:29:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/category/topic/vision-strategy/feminist-vision/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/unity-consciousness-and-struggle-afghan-womens-fight-to-eliminate-oppression-and-barbarism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/unity-consciousness-and-struggle-afghan-womens-fight-to-eliminate-oppression-and-barbarism/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2025 16:29:00 +0000 For decades, women in Afghanistan have been among the first and easiest victims of fundamentalist fascism and imperialism. In every era and under every ruling regime, misogynistic policies and practices have either persisted or intensified. In Afghanistan’s patriarchal and feudal order, women are either confined within their homes—stripped of their humanity—or exploited as props in [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/unity-consciousness-and-struggle-afghan-womens-fight-to-eliminate-oppression-and-barbarism/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-ontological-disintegration-of-capitalist-modernity-and-the-origins-of-misogynistic-violence/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-ontological-disintegration-of-capitalist-modernity-and-the-origins-of-misogynistic-violence/#respond Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:29:16 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291629 The global crisis of the 21st century is not merely a temporary geopolitical instability, but an ontological moment of disintegration where Capitalist Modernity has reached its structural limits and attempts to violently restructure itself. ​The chain of conflicts marking this era must be understood as a Third World War conducted simultaneously across economic, political, cultural, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-ontological-disintegration-of-capitalist-modernity-and-the-origins-of-misogynistic-violence/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-ontology-of-womens-freedom-in-a-nations-memory-understanding-delal-amed/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-ontology-of-womens-freedom-in-a-nations-memory-understanding-delal-amed/#respond Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:59:49 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291090 To understand a person is sometimes to hold onto the sentence they left behind:  “The thought that if I fall as a martyr one day, I will leave a deep pain in the heart of my people, already hurts me…”  This saying is spoken not about the aesthetics of death, but about the responsibility of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-ontology-of-womens-freedom-in-a-nations-memory-understanding-delal-amed/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-woman-liberation-paradigm-and-the-universal-claim-of-the-kurdistan-revolution/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-woman-liberation-paradigm-and-the-universal-claim-of-the-kurdistan-revolution/#respond Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:53:57 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290790 “The model we aim to develop is neither a woman dissolved within the man nor a structure that is entirely anti-male. On the contrary, it necessitates a framework that secures both her freedom and a free life with equality through appropriate means.”  — Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan  This striking observation by Kurdish People’s Leader [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-woman-liberation-paradigm-and-the-universal-claim-of-the-kurdistan-revolution/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/communal-care-backbone-of-resistance-in-oaxaca/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/communal-care-backbone-of-resistance-in-oaxaca/#respond Fri, 19 Sep 2025 18:12:30 +0000 The women of the Mazatecas for Freedom collective carried glowing torches along the seashore as they began their march to the federal courthouse in Boca del Río, Veracruz. On September 2, they set up a protest camp in the coastal city to demand an end to the judicial torture the Mexican state has subjected them [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/communal-care-backbone-of-resistance-in-oaxaca/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rohingya-women-carry-not-just-a-story-of-pain-but-a-plan-for-change/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rohingya-women-carry-not-just-a-story-of-pain-but-a-plan-for-change/#respond Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:34:30 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287445 “In the Rohingya refugee communities, especially with whom I work, the progress on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)-3 (health and wellbeing) and SDG-5 (gender equality) has been deeply uneven and fragile – there have been small but significant steps forward,” said Noor Fatima, Specialist in Education Policy and Equity, Rohingya Maìyafuìnor Collaborative Network. “We now see [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rohingya-women-carry-not-just-a-story-of-pain-but-a-plan-for-change/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/womens-day-political-camp/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/womens-day-political-camp/#respond Fri, 08 Aug 2025 16:34:46 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287079 Tomorrow, as the Abahlali baseMjondolo Women’s League, we will come together to hold a political camp under the theme: “20 Years of Women’s Resistance – Ubuhlalism Begins with Us.” This theme allows us to reflect together on the long and difficult road we have travelled. We will remember the founding of the Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/womens-day-political-camp/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/materialists-skewers-the-dating-market-but-stops-too-short/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/materialists-skewers-the-dating-market-but-stops-too-short/#respond Sun, 13 Jul 2025 14:32:02 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1286115 Warning: This review contains spoilers. Celine Song’s newest film Materialists is a sleek and sexy piece of liberal feminist propaganda. Billed as a traditional romantic comedy, Materialists’ global box office earnings surpassed $45 million as of July 6, already outpacing the international haul of Song’s breakout film Past Lives. Before directing movies, Song worked as a matchmaker, an experience that she [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/materialists-skewers-the-dating-market-but-stops-too-short/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-left-response-to-the-birth-rate-crisis/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-left-response-to-the-birth-rate-crisis/#comments Sat, 12 Jul 2025 14:39:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1286111 In late June, the Atlantic ran an article titled “The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn’t as Bad as You’ve Heard — It’s Worse.” It posited that global fertility decline is happening much faster than official projections suggest. If the decline is not reversed, the article warned, the whole world will face profound economic challenges and “a smaller, sadder, poorer future.” While not [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-left-response-to-the-birth-rate-crisis/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/defending-ancestral-forests-from-corporate-plunder-boki-women-lead-the-way/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/defending-ancestral-forests-from-corporate-plunder-boki-women-lead-the-way/#respond Mon, 09 Jun 2025 15:33:54 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284757 In Boki land, the roar of chainsaws is now the sound of cultural erasure. Over the last five decades, the forests of this ancestral area, situated in Cross River State, Nigeria, have endured relentless plunder through timber extraction, but also the trafficking of wildlife, with many species now endangered or already extinct. This destruction strikes at the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/defending-ancestral-forests-from-corporate-plunder-boki-women-lead-the-way/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/solidarity-is-the-core-of-our-movements-its-also-messier-than-we-often-admit/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/solidarity-is-the-core-of-our-movements-its-also-messier-than-we-often-admit/#respond Sat, 19 Apr 2025 15:52:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1282678 “We are all led to solidarity by a complicated array of emotional, political, material and coincidental experiences,” novelist, activist and AIDS historian Sarah Schulman told me recently as we discussed her new book, The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity. “What really matters in the end is what we conclude from all these influences.” Her reflections [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/solidarity-is-the-core-of-our-movements-its-also-messier-than-we-often-admit/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/reproductive-work-from-the-time-of-socialist-federal-republic-of-yugoslavia-until-todays-slovenia-an-interview-with-sonja-lokar/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/reproductive-work-from-the-time-of-socialist-federal-republic-of-yugoslavia-until-todays-slovenia-an-interview-with-sonja-lokar/#respond Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1281422 The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has been well known for its socialist feminism – the politics that helped to create a state with a highly developed health-care system, with excellent childcare and all-day primary school, extended paid maternity and parental leave, public food canteens in the workplace, kindergartens, schools, companies and other state institutions, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/reproductive-work-from-the-time-of-socialist-federal-republic-of-yugoslavia-until-todays-slovenia-an-interview-with-sonja-lokar/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/indigenous-women-and-caregiving-in-mexico/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/indigenous-women-and-caregiving-in-mexico/#respond Fri, 28 Feb 2025 14:02:00 +0000 On February 19, 2025, Mexican legislators presented Congress with the third component of a bill that would mandate the creation of a National Caregiving System. NGOs such as Oxfam and community and grassroots collectives including the National Network of Indigenous Women Lawyers have pressed for this among legislators and the public as a whole. Their [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/indigenous-women-and-caregiving-in-mexico/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/marble-extractivism-and-art-washing-building-alliances-in-massa-carrara-italy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/marble-extractivism-and-art-washing-building-alliances-in-massa-carrara-italy/#respond Wed, 01 Jan 2025 15:55:11 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1277855 The marble extraction basin of the Province of Massa-Carrara in Italy is known for being a symbol of history, art and culture. It is the place from which Michelangelo obtained the raw material for his statues, in the sixteenth century. But, it is also a place of environmental devastation. The Apuan Alps, where the mining [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/marble-extractivism-and-art-washing-building-alliances-in-massa-carrara-italy/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-happens-when-climate-denialism-and-misogyny-intersect-enter-petro-masculinity/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-happens-when-climate-denialism-and-misogyny-intersect-enter-petro-masculinity/#respond Mon, 16 Dec 2024 17:48:31 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1277183 Cara Daggett, an associate professor of political science at Virginia Tech University, coined the term “petro-masculinty” in a paper she published in 2018. She used the term to describe the rise of authoritarian movements in the Western hemisphere and how they were being shaped by climate change denialism and misogyny in an appeal to men [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-happens-when-climate-denialism-and-misogyny-intersect-enter-petro-masculinity/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/join-the-struggle-to-defend-the-womens-revolution-in-rojava-and-build-a-democratic-syria/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/join-the-struggle-to-defend-the-womens-revolution-in-rojava-and-build-a-democratic-syria/#respond Mon, 16 Dec 2024 17:15:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1277186 For women and the peoples of Syria, the overthrow of the Assad dictatorship is an important development. If we prevent the former dictatorship from simply being replaced by another despotic regime then this new situation has opened the doors to a new process for the peoples of Syria and the entire region. The nation-state project imposed on the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/join-the-struggle-to-defend-the-womens-revolution-in-rojava-and-build-a-democratic-syria/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/in-syria-a-war-of-two-lines-either-women-life-freedom-or-men-state-violence/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/in-syria-a-war-of-two-lines-either-women-life-freedom-or-men-state-violence/#respond Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:02:58 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1277156 The hostility of Turkey and its gangs against women reveals the two-line war in Syria. People’s leader Abdullah Ocalan, predicted for the 21st century: “Either Socialism or Barbarism”. We can interpret this as “Jin, Jiyan, Azadî” (Woman, Life, Freedom) or “Men, State, Violence”. Hegemonic forces have used the ongoing third world war, whose center is [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/in-syria-a-war-of-two-lines-either-women-life-freedom-or-men-state-violence/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-reproductive-justice-movement-must-be-expansive-under-a-second-trump-term/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-reproductive-justice-movement-must-be-expansive-under-a-second-trump-term/#respond Sat, 30 Nov 2024 16:39:32 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1276441 After his uncle was first elected president of the United States, Fred C. Trump III wanted to use the access he had to the White House for something positive, he explains in his new memoir, All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way. “I was eager to champion something my wife, Lisa, and I [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-reproductive-justice-movement-must-be-expansive-under-a-second-trump-term/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/against-azerbaijans-authoritarianism-cop29-and-green-capitalism-wars-and-regional-slide-into-authoritarianism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/against-azerbaijans-authoritarianism-cop29-and-green-capitalism-wars-and-regional-slide-into-authoritarianism/#respond Fri, 22 Nov 2024 16:42:08 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1275739 Caucasus Feminist Anti-War Movement—C-FAM is an emerging movement of feminist and anti-war/peace activists from Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Unified in our defiance, C-FAM originated from a powerful solidarity action to confront the greenwashing practices at COP29 taking place in Azerbaijan on November 2024, one of the largest events in our region in recent times. Our movement embodies [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/against-azerbaijans-authoritarianism-cop29-and-green-capitalism-wars-and-regional-slide-into-authoritarianism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/femicide-is-rising-but-wheres-the-outrage/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/femicide-is-rising-but-wheres-the-outrage/#respond Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:26:32 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1274413 In Kenya, Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegi was brutally murdered—doused in petrol and set on fire by her ex-boyfriend just three weeks after returning from the Paris Olympics. In Switzerland, authorities recently revealed that Kristina Joksimovic, a former Miss Switzerland finalist, was killed by her husband, who confessed to the crime and allegedly dismembered her body [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/femicide-is-rising-but-wheres-the-outrage/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-50-year-old-new-masculinity/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-50-year-old-new-masculinity/#respond Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:41:54 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1271782 Since the presidential campaign shake-up in July, the national conversation about manhood is abuzz with talk of a “new” masculinity, embodied by good, decent men like Tim Walz and Doug Emhoff. What’s actually new, though, is what’s now coming into focus: the consequences of years of men’s hard work to redefine manhood. Masculinity has too often been [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-50-year-old-new-masculinity/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/women-who-search-for-the-disappeared-are-changing-what-it-means-to-be-a-victim/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/women-who-search-for-the-disappeared-are-changing-what-it-means-to-be-a-victim/#respond Sat, 31 Aug 2024 18:13:12 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1271624 There is a small bird in Colombia that’s famous for fighting off large hawks to protect its young: the sirirí. This is the origin of the name of “Operation Sirirí,” which is what Fabiola Lalinde christened her tireless effort to learn the truth about the disappearance of her son, Luis Fernando, in 1984. Her work [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/women-who-search-for-the-disappeared-are-changing-what-it-means-to-be-a-victim/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/give-us-our-land-back/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/give-us-our-land-back/#respond Sun, 18 Aug 2024 15:53:27 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1270992 Since October 7, social media accounts have circulated “viral” images of the genocide in Gaza that are actually from Syria. For example, social media users have posted an image of Palestinian children naming their dreams (“I want to eat bread; I want my father to be released from prison”). These posts are meant to raise [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/give-us-our-land-back/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cultivating-combative-feminist-strength/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cultivating-combative-feminist-strength/#respond Sat, 17 Aug 2024 18:13:35 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1270972 Alessandra Chricosta is a small woman with an easy smile who practices martial arts and embraces philosophy as a way of life. She is Italian by birth, but circumstances led her to spend a decade in Vietnam. Learning Vietnamese helped her understand differences between linguistic structures, which sometimes rely on contradictory forms of syntax. She [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cultivating-combative-feminist-strength/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/interview-with-cigdem-dogu-kjk-questioning-male-hegemony-and-becoming-oneself/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/interview-with-cigdem-dogu-kjk-questioning-male-hegemony-and-becoming-oneself/#respond Sat, 17 Aug 2024 17:00:48 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1270952 As KJK, we have a long history of struggle. The body and spirit of this struggle came to life with the principles of PAJK (Partiya Azadiya Jinen Kurdistane, Party of Free Women in Kurdistan). How do you evaluate these principles? And can we call this a struggle for “xwebun”? We have fifty years of history [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/interview-with-cigdem-dogu-kjk-questioning-male-hegemony-and-becoming-oneself/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/breaking-barriers-the-political-empowerment-of-bolivias-indigenous-women/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/breaking-barriers-the-political-empowerment-of-bolivias-indigenous-women/#respond Sat, 06 Jul 2024 14:49:39 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1268904 Remigia Ferrel Vallejos, a Bolivian union executive from Chimoré, in the coca-grower Chapare region, isn’t nostalgic for the old days. “Before there was a lot of fatalism. Many times, in meetings I was told, ‘women don’t count, the man has to come,” she explains. “That’s how it was; we didn’t even have the right to [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/breaking-barriers-the-political-empowerment-of-bolivias-indigenous-women/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-understanding-of-fascism-in-ocalans-concept-of-democratic-modernity/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-understanding-of-fascism-in-ocalans-concept-of-democratic-modernity/#respond Mon, 01 Jul 2024 16:55:36 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1268669 “Whoever is not willing to talk about capitalism should also keep quiet about fascism” On the eve of the Second World War, Max Horkheimer, one of the leading minds of the Frankfurt School, stated that there was a connection between capitalism as the economic order of bourgeois society and the emergence of fascism with the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-understanding-of-fascism-in-ocalans-concept-of-democratic-modernity/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/feminism-labor-and-precarity-in-bolivia/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/feminism-labor-and-precarity-in-bolivia/#respond Fri, 21 Jun 2024 16:38:02 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1268192 The neoliberal period began in Bolivia in 1985, a year forever inscribed in popular memory. The population did not passively accept the changes in capital accumulation but responded with widespread mobilization and protest.  In 1986, mine workers and other popular sectors led the “March for Life,” which marked the beginning of a cycle of resistance. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/feminism-labor-and-precarity-in-bolivia/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-democratizing-universities-would-supercharge-the-pro-palestine-divestment-movement/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-democratizing-universities-would-supercharge-the-pro-palestine-divestment-movement/#respond Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:44:21 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1267727 The pro-Palestinian divestment movement has erupted across the country, after over a decade of bubbling and stirring under the guidance of organizations like Students for Justice in Palestine. Students have built encampments, led walkouts and passed student government resolutions demanding that their universities cease investing their endowments in companies that uphold Israel’s genocidal apartheid system. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-democratizing-universities-would-supercharge-the-pro-palestine-divestment-movement/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nobody-could-prepare-you-for-the-war-interview-with-croatian-feminist-biljana-kasic/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nobody-could-prepare-you-for-the-war-interview-with-croatian-feminist-biljana-kasic/#respond Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1262306 Biljana Kašić is a feminist theorist as well as peace and civil activist from Croatia. She is one of the leaders of the Centre for Women’s Studies (Zagreb), the co-founder of many feminist initiatives since the eighties of the twentieth century and  engaged feminist at the international level. As a professor at the Department of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nobody-could-prepare-you-for-the-war-interview-with-croatian-feminist-biljana-kasic/feed/ 0