- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction - Houzan Mahmoud
- 1. For the Execution of My Son, I Did Not Cry; There Was Smoke Coming from My Soul - Told by Mother Sabria and written by Amira Mohammed
- 2. The Last Cigarette Butt before Execution - Told by Nazanin Hasan and written by Amira Mohammed
- 3. A Stolen Childhood - Bayan Saeed
- 4. Run Away: A Vision from a Woman’s Perspective - Bayan Salman
- 5. There is a Sorrow in my Heart That I Cannot Console - Susan Shahab
- 6. The Prison Speakers Played Islamic Verses - Kobra Banehi
- 7. Breaking the Bars of Home and Becoming a Peshmerga - Farah Shareefi
- 8. Fighting an Islamic Regime - Nasrin Ramazanali
- 9. Fuchsia Flower of My Brother (Nasir Khoshkalam) - Nahiya Khoshkalam
- 10. The Explorer Who Watched from a School Window - Bayan Nasih
- 11. The Lost Photos of Engagement - Shahla Yarhussein
- 12. My Story - Diba Alikhani
- 13. At the Red Prison, They Want Workers - Rozhgar Mustafa
- 14. On Art, Womanhood, Being the ‘Other’ - Avan Omar
- 15. In Search of Kurdishness: Our History, My Life - Simal (Anonymous)
- 16. ‘To Be Ruken or Not to be Buket?’ - Ruken Isik
- 17. Life is an Ongoing Struggle - Khanda Rashid Murad
- 18. A Woman of the Homeland of Rojava - Nafia Aysi Hasso
- 19. A Handful of Blood - Khanda Hameed
- 20. Except for Poetry, Nothing Else Shields Me - Hero Kurda
- 21. Once Upon a TIme in Rojava - Deejila Haydar
- 22. A Day at Tel-Rafiat - Seveen Jimo
- 23. This is the Story of My Life - Lanja Khawe
- 24. I Struggle for Two Types of Liberation: Gender and Human Liberation - Dashne Nariman
- 25. What Motivated Me to Write? - Zhala Hussein
- Index