We are pleased to announce that we will soon be launching a summer study group series, with the first session taking place on Saturday, May 30th at 12pm Eastern (9am Pacific).
The title of the series is The Colonization of Kurdistan: History, Political Economy, and Gender, and we are proud to be co-hosting it as a collaboration with our friends City Kurds and the Kurdish Gender Studies Network.
In this series we will examine how colonial domination has been produced through borders, militarization, genocide, extraction, criminalization, linguistic and educational repression, and gendered violence. We will also engage briefly with Kurdish feminist and decolonial alternatives, including women’s liberation, democratic confederalism, ecological politics, and autonomous educational institutions. If there is enough interest, the series will continue into the Fall specifically to further discuss different forms of resistance and anti-colonial organization across Kurdistan.
The summer series will span four monthly sessions, where we will host discussions via Zoom. The standing time will be 12:00–1:30 pm EST/ 18:00-19:30 CET/ 19:00-20:30 Rojava, always on Saturdays.
Session Dates:
Saturday, June 27
Saturday, July 25
Saturday, August 22
RSVP here to join our first session on May 30th.
Session #1: Theoretical and Historical Background for the Colonization of Kurdistan
This session introduces theoretical frameworks for understanding the colonization of Kurdistan across its different regions. We will also discuss gender as a foundational dimension of colonization and engage debates around decolonization/women’s liberation.
Readings for May 30th:
Goner, Ö. Colonization of Kurdistan: A Basic Geographical, Historical, and Theoretical Framework https://polarjournal.org/2025/10/21/colonization-of-kurdistan-a-basic-geographical-historical-and-theoretical-framework/
Amini, B. (2026). “National Colonialism: Nation-State, Colonialism and Colonisation of Kurdistan.” Nations and Nationalism 32(2): 414–425. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MEBI56zmZWTs_566PxJPIqaO4HUgFz3F/view?usp=sharing
On Beautiful Men and Love for the Women’s Revolution https://jineoloji.eu/en/2025/03/20/on-beautiful-men-and-love-for-the-womens-revolution/
Marcel Cartier, Jineolojî https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/marcel-cartier-jineoloji