@dilardirik
Writer & researcher || Contact: dilar.dirik@proton.me || Links & PDFs of my work
Blog
The Shedding | Substack
The Shedding | Substack
The Shedding | Substack
Book
The Kurdish Women's Movement: History, Theory, Practice
The Kurdish Women's Movement: History, Theory, Practice
Catalan translation - El moviment de dones del Kurdistan: Història, teoria i pràctica
Catalan translation - El moviment de dones del Kurdistan: Història, teoria i pràctica
Una obra que ens transporta al centre d’un dels experiments revolucionaris més emocionants del món. El moviment de dones del Kurdistan és al centre d’un dels experiments...
Book Launch: The Kurdish Women's Movement: History, Theory, Practice
Book Launch: The Kurdish Women's Movement: History, Theory, Practice
The Kurdish women's movement is at the heart of one of the most exciting revolutionary experiments in the world today: Rojava. Forged over decades of struggl...
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
The interview: scholarship, sincerity, suspicion
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The interview: scholarship, sincerity, suspicion
Politicizing feminicide
Politicizing feminicide
The following is the script of the speech I gave at the “Feminicide: Remembering, Understanding, Responding Together” event in Paris on September 27th, 2025.
Feminism and Change: Accountability and Struggle
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Feminism and Change: Accountability and Struggle
Frieden ist Revolution
Frieden ist Revolution
Krieg ist mehr als eine von Armeen an Fronten ausgetragene Affäre – erst recht der »Dritte Weltkrieg«
Internationalism and the Kurdish Women’s Liberation Movement
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Internationalism and the Kurdish Women’s Liberation Movement
A Self-Critique
A Self-Critique
A Self-Critique
A self-critical statement on my work, in a time in which the liberal mask of the violent imperialist system is crumbling in real-time. To be read with an open mind.
Solidarity from Below from Kurdistan to Artsakh
Solidarity from Below from Kurdistan to Artsakh
Solidarity from Below from Kurdistan to Artsakh
A CONVERSATION BETWEEN DILAR DIRIK AND NANCY AGABIAN Between neo-Ottoman imperial aspirations and its active participation in NATO, the Turkish state imposes its occupation of parts of the region and…
Foreword to "The Political Thought of Abdullah Öcalan" Left Book Club edition
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Foreword to "The Political Thought of Abdullah Öcalan" Left Book Club edition
Podcast
Women & War: A Feminist Podcast
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Podcast
Women & War: A Feminist Podcast
Academic Journals
Reimagining self-determination: Relational, decolonial, and intersectional perspectives (co-authored)
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Reimagining self-determination: Relational, decolonial, and intersectional perspectives (co-authored)
Afterword: Kurdish Queer Studies in Times of Violence
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Afterword: Kurdish Queer Studies in Times of Violence
The Meanings of Internationalism: A Collective Discussion on Pan-African, Early Soviet, Islamic Socialist and Kurdish Internationalisms Across the 20th Century (co-authored)
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The Meanings of Internationalism: A Collective Discussion on Pan-African, Early Soviet, Islamic Socialist and Kurdish Internationalisms Across the 20th Century (co-authored)
Stateless citizenship: ‘radical democracy as consciousness-raising’ in the Rojava revolution
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Stateless citizenship: ‘radical democracy as consciousness-raising’ in the Rojava revolution
Book chapters
Mekap—A Social History of the “Terrorist Shoe” That Fought ISIS
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Mekap—A Social History of the “Terrorist Shoe” That Fought ISIS
Femi(ni)cide as War as Femi(ni)cide - Violence and Justice-Seeking Beyond Borders
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Femi(ni)cide as War as Femi(ni)cide - Violence and Justice-Seeking Beyond Borders
İnkârdan Öz Tanımlaya Doğru: Kürt Kadınları ve Türkiye Cumhuriyeti
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İnkârdan Öz Tanımlaya Doğru: Kürt Kadınları ve Türkiye Cumhuriyeti
ARCHIVE
Selected publications
Understanding the Resistance: Researching Kurdish movements in Europe – while doing no harm
Understanding the Resistance: Researching Kurdish movements in Europe – while doing no harm
Academics must acknowledge the criminalisation of political movements such as the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to prevent their work normalising oppression, writes Dilar Dirik
Liberal academia’s limits in the study of radical political worlds
Liberal academia’s limits in the study of radical political worlds
Bluesky: @identitiesjournal.bsky.social
The Revolution of Smiling Women: Stateless Democracy and Power in Rojava
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The Revolution of Smiling Women: Stateless Democracy and Power in Rojava
Reform ve Devrim Arasında Kadın Perspektifinden Sivil İtaatsizlik
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Reform ve Devrim Arasında Kadın Perspektifinden Sivil İtaatsizlik
Overcoming the Nation-State: Women’s Autonomy and Radical Democracy in Kurdistan
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Overcoming the Nation-State: Women’s Autonomy and Radical Democracy in Kurdistan
"Only with you, this broom will fly" - Rojava, Magic, and Sweeping away the State inside of us
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"Only with you, this broom will fly" - Rojava, Magic, and Sweeping away the State inside of us
Selected Talks & Interviews
Global Workshop: Provincializing Euro-American Feminism: Re-thinking the Relationship between Feminism, Colonialism and Governance
Global Workshop: Provincializing Euro-American Feminism: Re-thinking the Relationship between Feminism, Colonialism and Governance
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10 Jahre nach Paris - Feminizide gegen kurdische Frauen & die Rolle Europas
10 Jahre nach Paris - Feminizide gegen kurdische Frauen & die Rolle Europas
Fast genau 10 Jahre nach dem Feminizid an den drei kurdischen Revolutionärinnen Sakine Cansiz, Fidan Dogan und Leyla Saylemez (Sara, Rojbîn und Ronahî) durch...
Jineolojî & kurdische Frauenbewegung | Anti-Was? Podcast
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Jineolojî & kurdische Frauenbewegung | Anti-Was? Podcast
Anti-Was? · Episode
Morbid Meaning-Making? Martyrs as Anti-Colonial Archives | Kunsthalle Wien
Morbid Meaning-Making? Martyrs as Anti-Colonial Archives | Kunsthalle Wien
Kurdish women's knowledge of the state: from guerrilla to the refugee camp | Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
Kurdish women's knowledge of the state: from guerrilla to the refugee camp | Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
Seminar: 'Kurdish women's knowledge of the state: from guerilla to the refugee camp' Speaker: Dr Dilar Dirik (Refugee Studies Centre and Lady Margaret Hall) RSC Seminar, 22 January 2020 RSC Public Se
Kurdistan as a Site of Critique: Politics of Decolonization | University of Rojava summer school
Kurdistan as a Site of Critique: Politics of Decolonization | University of Rojava summer school
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Women's Justice-Seeking in the Context of Political Violence | Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
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Can Democracy Defeat Fascism? | Progressive International Summit at the End of the World
Can Democracy Defeat Fascism? | Progressive International Summit at the End of the World
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Rojava and the Kurdish Women's Movement | Everyday Anarchism
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Rojava and the Kurdish Women's Movement | Everyday Anarchism
Co-authored texts
Feministische Außenpolitik: Loyal mit der Macht, nicht der Freiheit
Feministische Außenpolitik: Loyal mit der Macht, nicht der Freiheit
Feministische Außenpolitik: Loyal mit der Macht, nicht der Freiheit
Hevaltî – Revolutionary friendship as radical care
Hevaltî – Revolutionary friendship as radical care
Hevaltî – Revolutionary friendship as radical care
Opinion, Commentary, Essay
Forget the UN! Meet the Self-Determining Refugees in Kurdistan - teleSUR English (2015) (old link no longer available)
Forget the UN! Meet the Self-Determining Refugees in Kurdistan - teleSUR English (2015) (old link no longer available)
From Genocide to Resistance: Yazidi Women Fight Back - teleSUR English (2015)
From Genocide to Resistance: Yazidi Women Fight Back - teleSUR English (2015)
Criminalizing Our People: Social Impacts of the PKK Ban - teleSur English (2015)
Criminalizing Our People: Social Impacts of the PKK Ban - teleSur English (2015)
What if Alan Kurdî did grow up in France? - ROAR Magazine (2016)
What if Alan Kurdî did grow up in France? - ROAR Magazine (2016)
Turkey’s Anti-Alevi Politics in the Age of the Islamic State Group - teleSUR English (2016)
Turkey’s Anti-Alevi Politics in the Age of the Islamic State Group - teleSUR English (2016)
Building Democracy without the State - ROAR Magazine (2016)
Building Democracy without the State - ROAR Magazine (2016)
Erdogan's war on women - openDemocracy (2016)
Erdogan's war on women - openDemocracy (2016)
Radical Democracy: The First Line Against Fascism - ROAR Magazine (2017)
Radical Democracy: The First Line Against Fascism - ROAR Magazine (2017)
Feminist pacifism or passive-ism? - openDemocracy (2017)
Feminist pacifism or passive-ism? - openDemocracy (2017)
Women’s Internationalism against Global Patriarchy - ROAR Magazine (2018)
Women’s Internationalism against Global Patriarchy - ROAR Magazine (2018)
The Revolutionary Women's Army of Rojava - The Funambulist (2019)
The Revolutionary Women's Army of Rojava - The Funambulist (2019)
Unbowed - The New Internationalist (2020)
Unbowed - The New Internationalist (2020)
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