Free Khalida Jarrar, End the Global Prison-Industrial Genocide
The Palestinian Feminist Collective demands the immediate and unconditional freedom of Palestinian political prisoner, feminist activist and scholar, and revolutionary leader, Khalida Jarrar, who teaches us that “hope in prison is like a flower that grows out of stone.”
A Feminist Praxis for Academic Freedom in the Context of Genocide in Gaza
As members of the Palestinian Feminist Collective and scholars at North American universities, we are steadfast in our commitment to the intellectual pursuit of knowledge, truth, and justice in environments free from systemic oppression. The Zionist regime’s escalated genocide in Gaza has meant the annihilation of intellectual and cultural sources of wisdom, or sophicide.
Sophicide refers to the Zionist regime’s deliberate annihilation of Indigenous knowledge traditions inspired by the land itself, as well as the carriers of that knowledge, including elders and women. It involves the crushing of Palestinian life and learning through the systematic murder of Palestinian students, mentors, teachers, researchers, scholars, academics, writers, librarians, archivists , spiritual leaders, historiographers, creatives, poets, interns, lecturers, professors, staff, and lab technicians. Such attacks on these Indigenous knowledge carriers impacts entire generations of learners, crushing their aspirations and dreams.
The Palestinian Feminist Collective Condemns Reproductive Genocide in Gaza
Reproductive Justice upholds the right to bodily autonomy for individuals, families, and communities in all decision-making and practices related to sex and reproduction including the right to have or not have children; the right to give birth free from oppression, exploitation, and violence; and the right to create and raise families in safe and healthy environments with sustainable access to food, water, electricity, and medical treatment.
Palestine is a Feminist Struggle: U.S. Feminist Organizations Call for Permanent Ceasefire Now
We, as frontline feminist organizations on Turtle Island (North America), stand united in our unequivocal condemnation of the ongoing genocide in the besieged Gaza Strip and call for an immediate ceasefire. The escalating violence, fueled by U.S. politician’s complicity and inaction, is resulting in the tragic loss of countless lives each day. As feminists of conscience we cannot and will not remain silent. The violence must stop now.
Shut Down Colonial Feminism on International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
By colonial feminism, we refer to Western and colonial discourses and policies that deploy the language of liberating women to justify invasions, genocides, military occupations, resource extractions, and labor exploitations. Colonial feminism depicts Palestinian women as helpless victims in need of saving from their own culture, society, and religion, while simultaneously rendering them disposable, threatening, and deserving of death. These tactics collude to justify the ongoing Zionist occupation of our homeland, expulsion of our people, and endless warfare waged upon Palestinian life. We reaffirm that Palestine is a feminist issue and assert that feminism is incompatible with Zionism.
A Love Letter to Our People Struggling in Palestine
To our Palestinian sisters, your steadfastness to hold ground, at the risk of injury and death, and against all odds is our fortitude. Gendered violence is core to settler colonial practice. We stand with you as you resist this masculinized and militarized colonization. We share in your pain from this renewed assault on Palestinian life and land. We are enraged as settlers wreak havoc and call for the death of our people. We stand vigilant as you withstand airstrikes in Gaza, and stun grenades, tear gas, skunk water, rubber bullets, and the desecration of our sacred sites in Jerusalem, no less during the month of Ramadan.
We stand with you as you resist the media’s violent erasure of the Palestinian struggle.
Palestine is a Feminist Issue Pledge
The Palestinian Feminist Collective (PFC) is a US-based body of Palestinian and Arab women and feminists committed to Palestinian social and political liberation by way of confronting systemic gendered and colonial violence, oppression and dispossession. Through a collective process of radical envisioning and co-creation, the PFC’s praxis is guided by two frameworks: anti-colonialism and life-affirming decolonization.