Decolonial feminism forcefully opposes the colonial politics of death, says the Palestinian Feminist Collective.
A protester in a keffiyeh holds a sign reading"STOP BOMBING CHILDREN" during an outdoor protest in London, England, on March 8, 2024.since October. Nearly 35,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed by Israel and at least 1.7 million have been displaced., we reached out to initiate a conversation with members of the Palestinian Feminist Collective out of a desire to amplify the voices of feminists who are fighting for a free Palestine.
“Palestine is a Feminist Issue” statement — it was the first comprehensive public-facing embodiment of the Palestinian Feminist Collective’s principles. We had 13 principles in that calendar and while working on it, we were asking ourselves: We are here in the U.S. for different reasons, but many of us are here because our families were displaced. Part of building collective spaces is a practice of reconnecting the fabrics of our intimacies as an Indigenous people. And part of building a feminist collective is also to rebuild that space, to think, to dream together, to build friendships with one another, to love each other and to create spaces of belonging.
So, we have to ask ourselves: How do we understand attacks on Gaza specifically as gendered assaults on women’s bodies, sexualities and life-giving capacities? In other settler-colonial contexts, bodies, sexualities and reproductive capacities are targeted in particular ways because of what they represent — land, which is reproduction; Indigenous kinship and governance; and the possibility of alternatives. In this case, it’s the possibility of Palestinian sovereignty.
So, it’s not just about the past few months, or just about Gaza, but about all of Palestine.
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