#communalism

from the Rojava Information Center's Instagram: “RIC interviewed civilians taking up the call for general mobilization.”

For anyone seeing this who doesn't know the context: Syria is gearing up to do a genocide on, amongst other groups, the Kurdish people, from whom the Rojava Revolution was born in North East Syria. This revolution has been working to create a grassroots democratic alternative to capitalism and the nation-state which centers women, youth, ethnic minorities, & nature, in the form of the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North East Syria (DAANES).

The city of Kobanê is currently under siege, the supply of bread and fuel has been cut off, and they are running out of medicine. There are reports of massacres of civilians including children being done by groups aligned with the Syrian government. Several babies have died due to freezing temperatures because they've cut access to power. And this is just in the past week or so.

Here's an article that explains the political context behind these attacks, & this post has a ton of links on Rojava, DAANES, the ideology behind the revolution, etc. to educate yourself. If you have money for humanitarian aid, donate to the Kurdish Red Crescent here. February 1 is World Rojava Solidarity Day so if you can, respond to the Global Call for Solidarity and organize a protest in defense of Rojava.

well you came to the right inbox i love to read and ill kick any nest

oh this is a good read and i recommend ppl sub to the substack if youre able

i like especially this part here

i feel like a lot of tirfs here on tumblr do this trick often those at least who believe truly they are revolutionary and who insist there are/can be good men who support them but that it is so very rare because doing so is often at their expense and to gives no benefit to them

a lot of people insistent on the irredeemable nature of men do seem to fall for this lie of the patriarchy that men can only be benefited by the systems that subjugate others that they will only be politically decent in order to be good allies or that supporting women is at great sacrifice ignoring the fact that the patriarchy harms men too that seeing others suffering is itself an indignity on yourself when you are asked to sit and do nothing about it

licherally tho

to that id say i dont think gender separatism is automatically expressly or directly transphobic ofc but i do absolutely think theres something to be said about how separatism does innately act as if there are two groups to separate and as a result trans and intersex people (especially nonbinary trans people) will always be caught in the middle even when theyre "included" because male and female men and woman have never and will never be two distinct fully inextricable categories and trans* and intersex people are fully the overlapping sections that get torn to shreds in political gender separatism