Presentation of new issues of ČKZ journal: Feminism, Art, Literature and the Kurdish Women's Movement

The introduction of the two new publications of the ČKZ journal is centred around the thematic issue of the ČKZ Feminism, Art, Literature as well as the monograph The Kurdish Women's Movement by Dilar Dirik. Drawing from the post-Yugoslav space, Feminism, Art, Literature places the artistic, literary and, on a wider scale, intellectual work in the context of the material and the social, revealing the ways in which they are and have been constituted as spaces where feminism is established as an ideological, methodological, affective and political intervention. In her monograph The Kurdish Women's Movement, Kurdish-Arab sociologist and feminist Dilar Dirik presents not only the history and current practices of the revolutionary Kurdish women's movement, but also the possibilities for political action, including the importance of revolution for women's movements around the world today. Her main objective is to present the purpose of the revolutionary Kurdish women's freedom movement and the scope of its political vision, from the perspective of the movement itself and drawing on its practices, with the hope and desire to build bridges between the different fights for freedom. Drawing from their own work, the participating female authors, editors and translators will question the ways  and the significance of the past and current feminism, positing the question of where and how to continue, as it pertains to feminist action not just at home, but in a wider context as well.   

Organisation and production: City of Women, Škuc Gallery; Coproduction: Časopis za kritiko znanosti, domišljijo in novo antropologijo, Institute of Culture and Memory Studies ZRC SAZU.Supported by: Ministry of Culture, Municipality of Ljubljana