In solidarity with the national call by Palestinian Feminist Collective (PFC), CODEPINK, and International Women's Association: CODEPINK NYC, PFC NYC, and AF3IRM NYC are screening the film Leila and the Wolves (Leila wa za'ib) followed by a discussion and Q&A on the often-neglected role of women in resistance/liberation movements.
Heiny Srour's film follows Leila, a young Lebanese woman in London, who time-travels through twentieth-century Lebanon and Palestine and focuses on the central, militant role women played in Palestinian and Lebanese resistance movements. Srour combines archival footage, dramatic reenactments, fantastical imagery, and Arab mythology to retell the modern, anti-colonial history of the Levant from a feminist point of view.
Masks are encouraged
NATIONAL CALL:
On March 8th, 2025, we call on people of conscience all over the world to join us in reviving the revolutionary feminist tradition of the Third World Women's Alliance. Despite its relatively obscure status today, the term "Third World Women" embodies the incomplete revolutionary project that wages an unyielding fight against interlocking systems of gendered and sexual violence, colonialism, racism, and imperialism.
We pay homage to a long lineage of feminist joint struggle between women's movements in Africa, Asia, Latin America, their diasporas, among Indigenous communities in Turtle Island, and worldwide. These living histories continue to teach us what true revolutionary feminism and joint struggle look like in practice.
This IWWD, we continue to center Palestinian resistance and sumoud as the north star of our political vision and the feminist program it yields. We resist reproductive genocide, labor exploitation, colonial feminism, militarization, scholasticide, ecodice, global prison regimes, colonialism, imperialism, and all forms of violence which are central mechanisms underlying the oppression of women worldwide.
WHEN
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WHERE
The People's Forum
320 W 37th St,
New York, NY 10018,
United States,
CONTACT
Nadia ·