Aesthetic Intervention: Kurdish Female Combatants’ Artistic Practices (By Özlem Belçim Galip)

The role of women in armed guerrilla groups and conflicts has been a focal point of feminist scholarship, especially during the last two decades. However, the case of female combatants provides another example of limitations being placed on women’s agency in both conflict

A cry with a hand wave from a high-rise block: Forced dispossession and resettlement in Southeast Turkey (By Özlem Belçim Galip)

  The desperate situation of Kurdish women in the Kurdish region of Turkey struck me first while shooting my documentary film in late 2019 in several cities in the region. I managed to observe the intense changes to the socio-cultural dynamics accompanying the