The Womens Protection Units (Kurdish: Yekîneyên Parastina Jinê), commonly known as the YPJ, are an armed Kurdish group which was set up in 2012 as the female brigade of the leftist YPG militia. The YPG/YPJ are the armed wing of a Kurdish coalition that has taken de facto control over a sizable chunk of Syrias predominantly Kurdish north (called Rojava)...The group had been praised by both socialist and non-socialist feminists for confront[ing] traditional gender expectations in the region and redefining the role of women in conflict in the region. One YPJ leader said: I dont want to get married or have children or be in the house all day... I want to be free. According to photographer Erin Trieb, the YPJ is in itself a feminist movement, even if it is not their main mission. She asserted that they want equality between women and men, and a part of why they joined was to develop and advance the perceptions about women in their culture. They can be strong and be leader. https://youtube/watch?v=_-ygIInLSUk
Posted on: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 10:13:37 +0000
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