This International Working Women’s Day (IWWD), the Palestinian
Feminist Collective (PFC) continues to center Palestinian resistance
and sumoud (steadfastness) as the north star of our political vision
and the feminist program it yields. For us, sumoud is the revolutionary
existence of Palestinians enacted through resilience, defiance,
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.”
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
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
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
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
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
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
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