This paper explores how gendered feelings are put into circulation to coagulate political subjects. In particular, I explore the affective politics fostered by Turkey’s pro-peace academic activists who publicly highlight their gendered identities as women, mothers, and/or feminists to articulate political feelings and stake claims legitimate political action. “Academics for Peace” is the colloquial name of the over two thousand academics from Turkey who signed a peace petition in 2016 calling the Turkish state to halt military operations in Kurdish cities and to pursue a peace process with Turkey’s Kurdish guerilla organization. When signatories were prosecuted for the alleged crime of terrorist propaganda, hundreds of them spoke out to defend themselves and reiterate their pro-peace positions in the courtrooms. This research focuses on over fifty of these court defenses in which gendered and feminist speaking positions were highlighted. Examining these defenses for various expressions of affect/emotion, including feeling empathetic, responsible, helpless, and heavy, the research seeks to address research questions such as: How do particular forms of resistant action and repression facilitate flows of political affect? How are being a woman, mother, and/or feminist are mobilized to wield certain affective states and moral/political positions? How is affective solidarity that interrupts militarism and racism gendered?