Aung Ya Mie: Women's Struggle & Internationalism In The Free Chin Hills W/ AIF's Rachel Ram Len Mawi
In this conversation, we sit down with an organizer and fighter from the internationalist front in Myanmar to explore the lived realities of the Spring Revolution and the autonomous women’s struggle rising from within it. Moving from poetry to political analysis, we discuss what it means to take up internationalism in practice, not as an idea, but as a commitment carved through shared danger, discipline, and deep love for the people.
We trace the formation of the AIF (Anti-Fascist Internationalist Front), the roots of women’s autonomous power in the hills, and the political and cultural contradictions that shape collective life under war. We talk about comradeship, grief, and joy as the emotional infrastructure of revolution, the role of art and memory, and how different cultural understandings of gender and liberation collide, transform, and re-form through struggle.
This episode is a meditation on building political consciousness in motion, forging international solidarity without romanticization, and creating structures capable of holding not only power, but freedom itself
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01:33 Intro
02:24 Poem
05:59 What does being an internationalist mean to you?
08:42 What is context did the AIF come from within the Spring Revolution?
15:15 Context cont. Spring Revolution
17:22 Context cont. AIF
18:22 Q: What is the context of the Women's Revolution as you've been able to participate?
24:01 Q: How does the AIF participate in this Women's struggle
27:29 Q: How does cultural differences within the Internationalist bring their own patriarchal tensions around collective development
30:29 Q: What kind of autonomous structure are you coming into contact with or seeing created?
32:16 Q: Organization's in Myanmar with positions on Women and Queer struggle
34:25 Q: Are there any intentional spaces or structures for political development, education and knowledge sharing?
38:28 Q: What does building comradery look like for you?
41:44 Q: How does the struggle in Myanmar teach you to navigate cultures of choosing commitment to struggle or to your comrades?
47:07 Q: How is grief addressed in the struggle? How does grief influence the martyr culture and vice versa
54:02 Q: What audience did you have in mind when writing Lessons From The Hills
56:15 Q: Are there lots of artist in the revolution? How does that influence the culture?
50:01 Q: Were there any lesson you left out of the text
59:57 How to Support and last thoughts
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