About us
We are a small group
of women listening
with great care.
Our manifesto
detHERmination exists because women's accounts of war are still treated as footnotes. We refuse the footnote. We believe a kitchen, a notebook, a balcony at dawn are also archives. We believe the right to be remembered, in one's own words, is a human right. We are not journalists. We are not historians. We are women keeping a record.
Four principles
01
She is the author.
Every story is told by the woman who lived it. We edit lightly, we never narrate over.
02
Consent is continuous.
Submissions can be withdrawn at any time, in any language, for any reason.
03
Memory before metric.
We do not measure suffering. We preserve presence.
04
No image without invitation.
Every photograph is made in collaboration. Faces are never used without permission.
A short timeline
- 2024
An idea, on a kitchen table.
Three women, a journalist, a translator, a photographer, begin gathering stories from friends across four borders.
- 2024
First fifty voices.
The archive launches privately with testimonies from Ukraine, Sudan, Iran and Afghanistan.
- 2025
The public archive.
detHERmination.org opens to readers. Submissions open in eighteen languages.
- 2026
Today.
Over three hundred women in twenty-six countries. Still volunteer-led. Still slow on purpose.