2013: Invitation to an Organizing Meeting
A Call to Feminist Women;
We are gathering to organize the eleventh March 8 Feminist Night March together!
In the eleventh year of our Feminist Night March, we will be out in the streets at night on another March 8, raising our voices against patriarchy, male violence, sexism, heterosexism, capitalism, militarism and war.
In 2012, we marked the feminist movement’s thirtieth year with the slogans “We are women, not the family; we are in feminist revolt.”
This year too, men continued to kill, rape, harass and beat, while the state, from its laws to its judiciary, continued to “side with men.”
While continuing its family policies that make women dependent on men and seek to imprison them within the family, the state attempts to interfere with our right to make decisions about our bodies by effectively banning abortion. The state’s sexist-nationalist rhetoric continues to be reflected in Kurdish women’s lives as state violence.
Throughout the year, as we sustained our feminist revolt against patriarchy through our actions, we also said in the streets: “Femicide is political,” “The murder of trans people is political,” “Support women, not the family,” and “Abortion is a right, the decision belongs to women.”
We grow stronger together, side by side, and as we grow stronger our struggle grows.
We weave our struggle through feminist solidarity against men and the male state, which set out to uphold the “family,” not women, try to intervene in everything from our existence to our decisions, our lives to our bodies, and disregard our domestic labor.
This is our call to organize together our Night March, where we give voice to this solidarity on March 8: We are meeting at SFK on Friday, February 22, at 19:00!
Istanbul Feminist Collective