My article has just been published in Feminist Review (written last year): “Feminist Resistance through Emotion: Humanist Approaches to Vulnerability and Healing”. The article explores how emotions can become sites of healing, connection and political resistance.

Feminist resistance through emotion: Humanist approaches to vulnerability and healing - Ashjan Ajour, 2026

This article reflects on a coaching session held in Vienna in March 2025 for recipients of the Emma Goldman Award, which recognises groundbreaking research on f...

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Incredibly brave Palestinian former prisoners speaking out about systematic use of rape as torture in Israeli jails: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

‘I could not stay silent’: Palestinian prisoner tells of sexual abuse in Israeli jail

Sami al-Saei has defied social stigma to speak out about what a report calls a ‘grave pattern’ of sexual violence

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In 2025, I received the Emma Goldman Award for my research on feminism and inequality amid genocidal war, the destruction of our family home and the loss of my father. I dedicate it to my beloved father Najy Ajour. They cannot break our spirits. In his name I continue.

Feminists maintain silence in the face of Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people. Silence is complicity, and complicity kills. In our article, we call for action in ⁦‪@GenderWorkOrg‬⁩. Read here ⬇️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Feminist Silences in the Face of Israel's Genocide Against the Palestinian People: A Call for Decolonial Praxis Against Complicity

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I had similar thoughts the other day. There is also an element of fatigue, or the realisation ( that I raised in my book Anarchism an Art of living) that we have parallel worlds and a possibility to build from there. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The exodus from X to Bluesky has happened – the era of mass social media platforms is over | Gaby Hinsliff

There’s comfort in being surrounded by like-minded people, but challenge is important, and we may have to look for it elsewhere, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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