Soma-Feminism | نسوية جسدية
About Us
Soma-Feminism
A feminist space for research and culture that begins with the body.
We approach the body not as an object, but as a field of knowledge, power, experience, and resistance.
We look at what the body carries, what shapes it, what regulates it, and what it learns to endure and resist.
We approach the body not as an object, but as a field of knowledge, power, experience, and resistance.
We look at what the body carries, what shapes it, what regulates it, and what it learns to endure and resist.
We deconstruct what we have grown accustomed to not seeing:
Invisible forms of violence, silent pain, repeated patterns, embodied fear, and the everyday practices that make control ordinary, natural, and difficult to name and observe.
How Do We Work?
We work through research, art, writing, collective memory, and inquiry that begins with the body.
We do not begin with ready-made answers,
And we do not impose conclusions on experience.
We observe, ask, trace, deconstruct, and return.
Agency is what we reclaim in every return.
Language is what we produce when we find what we did not know.
And wonder is what protects the unknown within knowledge.
Our field begins with the body, but it does not end there.
From experience, we follow the trace.
From the trace, we look for the pattern.
From the pattern, we examine the structure.
And from the structure, we ask how power enters the body — and how the body responds.
From the trace, we look for the pattern.
From the pattern, we examine the structure.
And from the structure, we ask how power enters the body — and how the body responds.
We are interested in what happens in the space between the personal and the political, between sensation and language, between the body and the systems that organize its life.
Soma is not a fixed framework.
It is a field taking shape.
A space for thinking, deconstruction, recomposition, return, and recovery.
It is a field taking shape.
A space for thinking, deconstruction, recomposition, return, and recovery.
Questions We Enter With
We do not begin with a conclusion. We begin with a question.
How Does Experience Become a Pattern?
Where does the personal become political?
When does an experience become a pattern?
What happens when the body resists what it has learned to endure?
When does an experience become a pattern?
What happens when the body resists what it has learned to endure?
What Becomes Invisible?
What traces does power leave on bodies, even when it cannot be seen?
Which forms of control become ordinary enough to disappear?
And what are we still not seeing?
Which forms of control become ordinary enough to disappear?
And what are we still not seeing?
Can We Find a Language for the Body?
What happens in the space between sensation and language?
What does the body know before language catches up?
Can we develop new languages for what the body experiences but cannot yet name?
What does the body know before language catches up?
Can we develop new languages for what the body experiences but cannot yet name?