Defiant but Humane: Women of Resistance in Iran, Lebanon and Palestine, My Teachers Today

TRANSCEND MEMBERS, 30 Mar 2026

Zarni tells it like it is - TRANSCEND Media Service

Defiant Iranian, Lebanese & Palestinians set a high bar of revolution against the savage West, most specifically Israel-US empire that has leeched on our collective humanity & the environment.

17 Mar 2026 – In the last nearly 40-years I have lived, in Western societies – specifically the United States and the United Kingdom. As a foreign student, labourer, professional, father, and husband. In permanent exile, from my native Buddha-forsaken Myanmar.

Living in liberal democracies, if only relatively speaking, has exposed me to the dominant schools of woman’s liberation ideologies – particularly what has come to be referred to as “imperial feminism” or “glass ceiling feminism”.

Margaret Thatcher and Hillary Clinton, among other a million names including celebrities and white feminist icons, spring to mind.

Mind you I started from a very low bar on issues of sexism and misogyny: my native Myanmar continues to be soaked in sexism and racism. I still reel from the stains of my own cultural upbringings.

Then of course there are “Third World” feminism and radical black feminisms, which I was insufficiently exposed to during my 8 years in US graduate schools 30 years ago.

I will readily admit that these are subjects I am least informed about. The more I open my mouth on feminism the more I will expose myself as yet another pig, trying to mansplain feminism.

Suffice it to say that I am grateful to friends and comrades who send me items which they think will help me grow as a scholar, an activist and simply a human.

Here I wish to share 2 conversations by revolutionary minds with organic links to West Asia’s liberation movements and anti-imperialist resistance:

1. susan abulbaha’s 20 minutes video-recording on anti-semitism allegations levelled at her and the New York Mayor Zohran Mamdadi’s errorneous condemnation of her, as a Palestinian to defend his own wife.

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