We stand with struggles of oppressed peoples around the globe! Black Lives Matter!
What began as a conversation amongst a few people rapidly became a larger conversation, then a project, and naturally and beautifully a full collaboration, and birthing of a book.
We, Colectiva Sembrar, are now a collective of almost all women, from around the world, dedicated to facilitating voices of those less heard who are themselves
What began as a conversation amongst a few people rapidly became a larger conversation, then a project, and naturally and beautifully a full collaboration, and birthing of a book.
We, Colectiva Sembrar, are now a collective of almost all women, from around the world, dedicated to facilitating voices of those less heard who are themselves collectively creating a new society in their actions of solidarity, care, love and mutual aid. In helping to raise up these voices, we also raise our own, and yours.
We see this as a very small part of many large and small projects, all acts of sowing seeds. It is up to all of us to nurture them as they grow.
We, Colectiva Sembrar, are continuing this project with our website, bringing more attention to the voices in the book, while also increasing it to include many more, in an expanding spiral of care and solidarity that we hope will reflect, suggest and transform.
Khabat Abbas is an independent journalist and video producer based in Rojava. She has extensively covered developments in Syria; from the creation of women’s organizations to running alongside frontline fighters in battles against ISIS and witnessing the devastating moments of the more recent Turkish occupation. She has published in local
Khabat Abbas is an independent journalist and video producer based in Rojava. She has extensively covered developments in Syria; from the creation of women’s organizations to running alongside frontline fighters in battles against ISIS and witnessing the devastating moments of the more recent Turkish occupation. She has published in local media outlets and produced for influ- ential foreign media. Khabat also has experience in the humanitarian field serving at MSF and currently UNHCR in projects aiming to assist internally displaced persons and refugees. Her personal interests include women’s empowerment, culture and mythology, as well as Kurdish music and folklore.
carla bergman is a mom, an independent scholar, film- maker, and budding poet. She is the co-author of Joyful Militancy, and edited Radiant Voices: 21 Feminist Essays for Rising Up. The threads that run through all her work are: radical social change, and amplifying voices and acts of solidarity and autonomy at the edges. carla spends much of her time capturing beauty with a camera, and walking with her partner, kids, and friends on Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish, and Musqueam Lands (Vancouver, BC).
Chia-Hsu Jessica Chang is a doctoral candidate in Com- parative Literature at Binghamton University. Her recent interests are the politics of de-naming and re-naming, the
technologized body and Asia as method.
Lais Duarte is a Ph.D candidate at the Anthropology department of CUNY. She studies solidarity networks, immigrant integration policy and decolonisation praxis. Lais is also a proud pet mama and spends her days dreaming of and fighting for a socially equitable and loving world.
Eleanor Finley is an activist-anthropologist at the Uni- versity of Massachusetts, Amherst, an editor at ROAR Magazine, and a former board member for the Institute for Social Ecology. She has been writing political ethnography since Occupy Wall Street and conducted activist-research about climate activism, social ecology and the Kurdish freedom movement. Her dissertation explores the practice of direct democracy within the European Kurdish diaspora. She lives in Friuli Venezia-Giulia, Italy.
Neil Howard is an academic (and) activist based at the University of Bath, in the UK. His research looks at exploitation, marginalization and how/whether unconditional basic income and non-violent community organizing can help overcome both. He is engaged with a variety of social movements, co-parents two children, and desperately longs for a world where the meeting of needs takes priority over the making of money.
Han Gil Jang is a writer, visual artist and translator currently based in Seoul. His current interests range from Asian diaspora art and the East Asian postwar experimental avant-garde to memory and representation of war.
Midya Khuduhur is a Fulbright Scholar with a master’s degree in Comparative Literature from the State Uni- versity of New York-Binghamton. Since 2014 she has been involved with humanitarian organizations and UN agencies and has four years’ experience dealing with Syrian refugees and Iraqi displaced people who were affected by the ISIS attacks. In 2018 she returned to academia to do her master’s, and subsequently gained a keen interest in Kurdish Studies especially Kurdish literature and cinema.
Raquel Lima is a poet, art-educator and Ph.D candidate in Post-colonialisms and Global Citizenship from the Centre for Social Studies at Coimbra University, where she works on orature, slavery and afrodiasporic movements. She is also an anti-racist activist and loves crossroads.
Liz Mason-Deese is a translator, researcher, cartographer and feminist activist living in Buenos Aires. She is a member of the Viewpoint Magazine editorial collective and the Counter-Cartographies Collective.
Boaventura Monjane is a Mozambican postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS, UWC) and fellow at the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-strategies of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.
Nancy Piñeiro Moreno is an Argentine militant translator and interpreter, grateful that her engagement in counter- hegemonic translation for social and political change is continuously keeping her from finishing her Latin American Studies MA thesis.
Seyma Özdemir is a Ph.D student at SUNY Bingham- ton. Her research interests are international migration, political economy, cultural studies and feminist theories. Nowadays, she is talking about capitalism with her children, drawing pictures, making laboratories, trailers, puzzles out of cardboard, imagining better futures and creating new spaces with them in quarantine.
EP & TP are involved in anti-authoritarian assemblies in Greece.
Ariella Patchen is a student, artist, activist and dreamer located in Binghamton, New York. She aspires to write about and participate in social movements across the world, as she imagines what it means to build a revolutionary new world.
magalí rabasa lives in Portland, Oregon with her partner and two kids. She is the author of The Book in Movement: Autonomous Politics and the Lettered City Underground, as well as numerous articles about independent media networks and autonomous movements. Over the past two decades she has participated in various alternative media, popular education, and radical publishing projects across the Americas. She is currently an assistant professor of Latin American cultural studies at Lewis & Clark College, where she encourages and incites critical conversations and actions related to the settler-colonial identity of the institution.
Debarati Roy is a Ph.D student at SUNY Binghamton’s English program where she focuses on South Asian cinema and literature, minority narratives and diaspora studies. She is a Humanities New York Public Humanities Fellow (2019–20). Her project, titled “Untold Stories and Diasporic Voices,” documents the migrant experiences of the South Asian diasporic community in the New York area. Through film screenings, exhibits and roundtable sessions, her project engages with untold stories of migration, belonging, and social and cultural mobility.
Emre Sahin is a participant and researcher of social movements, particularly the Kurdish movement, and a sociologist at Binghamton University. Until the Covid-19 pandemic, he was writing his dissertation on prefigurative mobilization and revolutionary transformation in Rojava. Recently, he has been nurturing non-human forms of life and thinking about the impact of consensus-seeking in decision-making processes.
Ji Young Shin is an assistant professor at the College of Liberal Arts, Yonsei University. Her current research involves examining the changes in East Asian minority communes circa 1945 from the textual studies perspective. Ji Young is also a member of RefugeeXField and Wednesday Peace Studies Group, where she strives for the liberation of refugees, women, people with disabilities and
animals altogether.
Marina Sitrin writes about, and participant in, societies in movement. She is a professor at Binghamton University, a mother and dreams of a free world. She is the author of Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina; Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina; the co-author of They Can’t Represent US!: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy; and the forthcoming The New Revolutions from Social Movements to Societies in Movement.
Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including Whose Story Is This?, Call Them By Their True Names, Cinderella Liberator, Men Explain Things to Me, The Mother of All Questions, Hope in the Dark and her memoir, Recollections of My Non- existence, published in 2020.
Vanessa Zettler is a teacher, sociologist, translator and writer. She graduated in Liberal Arts from the New School for Public Engagement, with specialization in Sociology by FESP-SP. During the time she lived in New York, she was part of the group who started the Occupy Movement. Vanessa is Brazilian, currently living in São Paulo where she is also an activist building community through music.
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Below is a list of all of the networks and groups in the book, with their contact information when possible. If you would like to contact a group that does not have information here, please write to our colectiva.
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