May 15, 2021
It’s Kurdish Language Day today. A language that has been banned & criminalised, is denied any public infrastructure like mother tongue education in schools, is invisible in all curricula, and can only be studied from below in self-organised classes.
Keeping Kurdish alive, in music, literature, private classes, media, academia (and all of this self-organised, from below and in the realms of agency of a non-state nation under constant attack), in itself is an act of anti-colonial resistance.
This day, also a big thank you to all Kurdish teachers out there volunteering and dedicating their time and efforts to disseminate a criminalised and de facto banned language, to fight back the states sponsored loss of identity.
Rosa Burç via Twitter
