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EPISODE · Aug 27, 2025 · 52 MIN

Episode Eighteen: Woman, Life, Freedom: Ilham Ahmed on the Kurdish Women's Revolution

from House of Dissent · host penderyn51

Episode 18 features a reading of Chapter 4 from The Internet and Radical Voices of Dissent titled "Kurdish Woman's Revolution: an interview with Ilham Ahmed'. The episode explores the Kurdish struggle for a homeland, the rise of the women's movement in Rojava, and the influence of Abdullah Öcalan's ideas on gender equality and libertarian socialism. Topics include the YPJ and female guerrilla fighters, media marginalization of the Kurdish cause, the role of social media, Afrin's resistance, and the vision for a polyethnic, democratic society in northern Syria.

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