L’internationalisme par le bas :En soutien à la lettre ouverte publiée dans The Guardian en solidarité avec les prisonnières et prisonniers politiques en Iran
Le réseau mondial Feminists For Jina exprime sa solidarité avec les signataires de la lettre « Aux prisonnières et prisonniers politiques d’Iran, pris·es “entre les deux lames d’une paire de ciseaux” », publiée dans The Guardian le 20 août 2026. Parmi nous se trouvent d’ancien·nes prisonnier·ères politiques qui savent ce que signifie être gardé·e en […]
Internationalism from below: In Support of the Open Letter Published in Solidarity with Political Prisoners in Iran
The Feminists For Jina Global Network expresses solidarity with the signatories of the letter “To Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two blades of a scissors’” published in The Guardian on August 20, 2026. Among us are former political prisoners who know well the value of being remembered, of being addressed, when the biggest fear of […]
Queer Narratives – War, Family and Ongoing Suffering
[Narratives below] On the occasion of May 17, the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia, the Feminists for Jina Network issued a call to collect and archive queer narratives of life under war and government-imposed internet shutdowns in Iran. Here, we share English translations of some of these narratives. Many of these stories underscore […]
Why Bombs Do Not Bring Freedom: A critical reckoning with the fantasy of military intervention as a path to liberation
“Can things get worse than this?” It seems they can. Woe to the days ahead. — Shahrokh Meskoob, Days on the Way (is there an original translation?) This war has not saved one human being from terror or from the unspeakable agonies of extinction. Then, why do we permit this blasphemy to persist, expand, and […]
We demand life. We demand dignity. We demand freedom.
This is the text of Feminists4jina’s speech at Berlin rally in solidarity with the people of Iran, on 18.01.2026. Photo by Ome —— Speaking as an Iranian has become unbearably hard. It feels as if someone is always speaking for you. If you are allowed to speak at all, It is only to answer a […]
Longing for Liberation, Trapped Between Two Reactionary Forces
A report from December–January 2025 (Dey 1404) , Tehran — days of tension, anxiety, and disbelief – The following text is a report by a comrade who has recently left Iran. It is based on their direct observations in a (limited) number of neighborhoods in Tehran through Friday, January 9th. The text is written at a time when images and reports of the government’s widespread and horrific killings, both in other parts of Tehran and in other cities, had not yet been released.
Against War, In Defence of Life
The future we envision is not built on the ruins and corpses left from wars imposed by reactionary forces, but forged through the people’s just struggle, grounded in the principle of Women–Life–Freedom.
Power To The People Means People’s Revolution For Regional Liberation
Feminist Solidarity Against Fascism, Warmongering, Imperialism, And Zionism
(This statement was written after Netanyahu’s speech addressing the people of Iran in October 2024.)
The Statement of Feminist Collectives and Groups on the Occasion of the First Anniversary of “Jin, Jian, Azadî” Revolutionary Movement
Each geography and each period of time defends the liberating goals of “woman, life, freedom” in its own particular way. The actualization of these goals calls for an ever-deepening solidarity and organized promotion of our links towards collective action. It means creating potential for the realization of an alternative perspective in the liberating struggles in Iran, in the Middle East and in the Global South. Liberation is no longer a dream, it is a necessity.
Rise up for Jin Jiyan Azadi – Snapshots of revolutionary Jina uprising in Iran
In 2023, the NYC chapter of Feminists for Jina created this video as part of a global joint action marking one year of feminist revolutionary uprisings in Iran, on the anniversary of the state killing of Jina Mahsa Amini. Click Here & Watch on YouTube