{"id":314371,"date":"2026-03-30T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=314371"},"modified":"2026-03-25T20:00:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:00:37","slug":"defiant-but-humane-women-of-resistance-in-iran-lebanon-and-palestine-my-teachers-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/03\/defiant-but-humane-women-of-resistance-in-iran-lebanon-and-palestine-my-teachers-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Defiant but Humane: Women of Resistance in Iran, Lebanon and Palestine, My Teachers Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

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. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

17 Mar 2026\u00a0<\/em>–\u00a0In 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.<\/p>\n

Living in liberal democracies, if only relatively speaking, has exposed me to the dominant schools of woman\u2019s liberation ideologies – particularly what has come to be referred to as \u201cimperial feminism\u201d or \u201cglass ceiling feminism\u201d.<\/p>\n

Margaret Thatcher and Hillary Clinton, among other a million names including celebrities and white feminist icons, spring to mind.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Then of course there are \u201cThird World\u201d feminism and radical black feminisms, which I was insufficiently exposed to during my 8 years in US graduate schools 30 years ago.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Here I wish to share 2 conversations by revolutionary minds with organic links to West Asia\u2019s liberation movements and anti-imperialist resistance:<\/p>\n

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  1. susan abulbaha\u2019s 20 minutes video-recording on anti-semitism allegations levelled at her and the New York Mayor Zohran Mamdadi\u2019s errorneous condemnation of her, as a Palestinian to defend his own wife.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    TO CONTINUE READING Go to Original – maungzarni.substack.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    17 Mar 2026\u00a0–\u00a0Defiant 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":259910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[742,88,2097,767,427,2200,2629],"class_list":["post-314371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-middle-east","tag-palestine","tag-us-empire","tag-women-in-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314372,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314371\/revisions\/314372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}