By: Shilan Fuad Hussien | August 3, 2026
Assemblies of Freedom: How Women’s Institutions Produce Political Agency
The revolutionary project in North and East Syria has been examined extensively through debates on democratic confederalism, feminist governance, and the politics of institutional autonomy. Yet one question remains insufficiently explored: how do women come to inhabit political subjectivity within a revolutionary project that seeks simultaneously to dismantle patriarchy and reimagine governance? This paper addresses that question through qualitative interviews with seven former members of the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ). Rather than examining women’s autonomous organisations as administrative mechanisms operating alongside broader governing
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