A roundtable discussion with feminist activists, artists, and scholars in commemoration of International Women’s Day

Feminists For Jina NYC is commemorating International Women’s Day by hosting a roundtable discussion Feminist Revolution in the Making with feminist activists, artists, and scholars. The panel aims to put the current uprising in Iran—with the central battle cry of "Woman, Life, Freedom," a Farsi translation of the slogan of the Kurdish women liberation movement—in conversation with feminist movements against patriarchy, heteronormativity, neoliberalism, colonization, and authoritarianism. Our goal is to foster a space for envisioning a transnational feminist alternative and vision and to learn from each other’s movements.

Iran has been the scene of relentless and extraordinary protest since mid-September of last year when the 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Jina Mahsa Amini, was killed in police custody for purportedly violating the mandatory Islamic Republic dress code. With women and other marginalized groups at its forefront and regime abolishment as its core mission, many have called this uprising a feminist revolution.

Feminists For Jina is a network of activists and collectives with diverse lived and learned experiences and viewpoints, united to echo and uphold the feminist lifeforce of the ongoing “Jin, Jiyan, Azadî” Revolution inside and outside of Iran and strengthening transnational solidarities.

Join us for this opportunity to make connections between feminist movements in Iran and Afghanistan, and to share perspectives on building transnational feminist solidarity from the diaspora.

List of speakers:

Zohra Saed, Poet and Professor at Macaulay Honors College, CUNY

Yelda Ali, Artist, Author, and Advocate

Elham Hoominfar, Feminists For Jina and Professor at Northwestern University

Moderator:

Manijeh Moradian, Feminist For Jina NYC and Gender Studies Professor at Barnard