Transnational Feminist Practices Against War- Late/ Make-up Assignment

While reading Transnational Feminist Practices Against War, I was very interested in the third point that was made which connected domestic civil oppression to the violence of war. I immediately thought about how the military policing in Ferguson during the protests after Michael Brown was murdered by police. As a response and in solidarity Palestinians tweeted advise on how to deal with tear gas. As I continued reading there were connections made between the violence brown women experience due to military action and occupations, and the violence immigrant, brown, domestic violence survivors in the US experience at the hands of the state. (the second is the topic I’ve been working on all semester!)

With this connection being made I started to think about the ways this violence plays out and how the traumas of both women align for example the US military sexually assaulting women even though the mainstream reasoning for war is to “save brown women from their repressive culture” and the state violence of immigrant women who have experienced DV being detained for possibly being undocumented and then being sexually assaulted while in police custody. Another very grim connection that comes to mind is the destruction of the home overseas being a very literal bombing of cities and homes. While in the US, immigrant women calling for help but being physically forced out of their homes. This leads me to the fact that the US to begin with creates the conditions for immigrant women to have to immigrate to the US because conditions in their home countries are not livable similar to the both economic and physical destruction US war creates for brown women overseas.

After reading the assigned reading I read this article (https://www.momentmag.com/22800-2/ )which talks about students studying black issues standing in solidarity with Palestine. Specifically, this video (https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/world/when-i-see-them-i-see-us/2015/10/15/c8f8aa40-72c2-11e5-ba14-318f8e87a2fc_video.html?utm_term=.eab06d5ae93e)

 was played at the students’ meeting. It pictures Palestinians standing in solidarity with Ferguson and Baltimore and vice versa, and the intersectionality of the issues themselves, yet the unique struggles of each people. It was all extremely moving to watch!!! This all made me think about how movements that focus specifically on ending domestic violence in immigrant communities can and should take an active anti- war stance. I’m wondering what these solidarities between DV and anti-war movements would look like. I’ve been coming back to the incite website a lot lately. I feel that the framework for the movement is set, now all it takes is connecting it to what is actually happening now in the present. Where do we start? What does this solidarity look like? In what spaces can these solidarity take place?