{"id":3143,"date":"2022-08-02T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/?p=3143"},"modified":"2024-10-05T18:51:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T22:51:15","slug":"their-blood-got-mixed-by-janet-biehl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/their-blood-got-mixed-by-janet-biehl\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Their Blood Got Mixed&#8221; by Janet Biehl"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3143\" class=\"elementor elementor-3143\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-911dbd5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"911dbd5\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7f12275\" data-id=\"7f12275\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-252a594 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"252a594\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">\"Their Blood Got Mixed\" by Janet Biehl<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-201b6cb elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"201b6cb\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3081dcb\" data-id=\"3081dcb\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f1abf21 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f1abf21\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-234 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/oldsite\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/BC-2-Their-blood-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"Their Blood Got Mixed\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/BC-2-Their-blood-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/BC-2-Their-blood.jpg 373w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/>Janet Biehl,\u00a0<\/b><i><b>Their Blood Got Mixed: Revolutionary Rojava and the War on ISIS<\/b><\/i><b>\u00a0(PM Press, 2022). A graphic memoir about a visit to Rojava in 2019.<\/b><\/p><p>Discussed at our Book Club on August 2, 2022.<\/p><p><b>Janet Biehl<\/b>\u00a0is the author of several books and translations around Kurdish subjects. She is a board member of the New York Kurdish Cultural Center.<\/p><p>In the summer of 2012 the Kurdish people of northern Syria set out to create a multiethnic society in the Middle East. Along with their Arab and Assyrian allies, they established a self-governing polity that was not only multiethnic but democratic, one that not only permitted but depended on women to participate in all social roles alongside men, including political and military roles. But in the summer of 2014 it faced an attack by ISIS, which imposed theocratic, tyrannical, femicidal rule on the parts of Syria and Iraq that it overran. But when ISIS attacked the mostly Kurdish city of Kobane, the YPG and YPJ, or people\u2019s militias resisted and gained the support of an international coalition. They liberated village after village and in March 2019 captured ISIS\u2019s last territory in Syria.<\/p><p>Around that time, two UK-based filmmakers invited the author to spend a month in Rojava making a film. She accepted, and arrived to explore the society and interview people from all walks of life about their experience in the revolutionary society. She observed the progress of the revolution and especially the effects of the war on the society. She found that the war had reinforced social solidarity among the ethnic and religious groups in Rojava. As one man in Kobane told her, as a result of the war, \u201cOur blood got mixed.\u201d<\/p><p><em>Their Blood Got Mixed<\/em> is available for purchase from <a href=\"https:\/\/pmpress.org\/index.php?l=product_detail&amp;p=1269\">PM Press<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A graphic memoir by Janet Biehl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-club","category-nonfiction"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3143"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3261,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143\/revisions\/3261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}