We stand on the shoulders of more than a century of Palestinian women’s and feminist organizing, which teaches us that social and political liberation are inseparable.
Their labors, sacrifices, and continuing struggles shape our identities and commitments to cultivating resistance cultures that thoroughly weave the public and private spheres to end patriarchal and colonial violence. They teach us that an embodied, intersectional practice is necessary for creating safe spaces for survivors of gendered and sexual violence, and for forging accountability mechanisms that challenge and expand dominant community and movement priorities. Our feminist vision and practice builds upon broad-based, cross-generational, and decolonial strategies for liberation. We build this feminist future guided by these principles for our ancestors, for each other, for our beloved homeland, for the generations to come, and for our world.
by Haya Kaabneh
Haya Kaabneh is a Palestinian visual artist, born in 1991 in Jordan. She has participated in a number of exhibitions in Palestine and abroad, displaying works in Zawyeh gallery, the A.M. Qattan Foundation, the Museum of the Palestinian People (USA), among others. In 2019, Haya launched her first solo exhibition, in collaboration with The Walled Off Hotel, Bethlehem. Primarily using watercolor and acrylic, Haya launched her second solo exhibition in collaboration with Almuswda’ gallery (2022 March). She is also experimenting with a new style and coloring methods. Haya has produced a large body of work focusing on the plight of Palestinian women as they struggle to change the status quo.
About Like Wild Flowers, We Grow: “Like flowers we grow and fill the world with a beautiful scent. Like flowers we grow every spring and never die. Like flowers we rise up and bring peace to earth. Like flowers we fight together and remain alive.”
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