As we mark one year since the beginning of the current brutal assault on Gaza, we stand unapologetically in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
We honor the Palestinian women*, who, in the face of immense pain, death, and oppression, sustain families and communities.
Our feminism is anti-colonial and anti-racist at its core, meaning a radical transformation of society. We reject capitalist greed, colonial violence and patriarchal exploitation, which lead us only to death and destruction. Instead, we choose solidarity, sustainability and freedom. We choose life.
We call for an intersectional and feminist solidarity that transcends borders. The fight against colonialism is urgent and global; it connects women and queers everywhere who experience the violence of cis-hetero-patriarchy, capitalism and white supremacy.
We condemn sexual violence while rejecting the exploitation of sexual violence in the service of genocide. Our lives and bodies must be free from all violence: patriarchal, homo/transphobic, colonial, capitalist. We are united in our demand for freedom, safety, dignity, and the right to self-determination.
After a year of unimaginable terror in Gaza, and escalation of colonial violence in the West Bank and Lebanon, we say loud and clear:
Stop the genocide in Gaza!
Stop all military aggression!
Abolish all colonial projects, nations and borders!
Abolish patriarchy and capitalism!
