The struggle against as well as the study of domestic violence remains unduly isolated from other issues in feminist debates and social sciences in general. Based on an ethnography (conducted between 2006 and 2009, consisting of participant observation and in-depth interviews with 73 women activists in 23 cities) of a women’s organization, KAMER, which operates in the context of militarized ethnic nationalisms in the predominantly Kurdish populated Eastern Turkey, this presentation draws attention to this isolation and discusses the possibilities of (re)situating the struggle against violence against women as a source of feminist theorizing and activism towards transversal politics. Using transversal politics as a framework and consciousness-raising as a method of political activism and expansion, KAMER is able to link domestic violence to other forms of violence (including militarized violence based on religion or ethnicity) and bring together women from very different political, ethnic, religious and sectarian groups to develop what can be called a “continuum of nonviolence” (to use Cynthia Cockburn's terminology). This form of activism underlines the broader implications of the struggle against domestic violence for transversal feminist politics, as well as pointing to the potentials of consciousness-raising as a means of transversal struggle against violence, war and militarization at large. The presentation also draws attention to the underexplored potentials of integrating grassroots feminist organizing into the debates on gender, culture, violence, and war, particularly with regard to the Middle East.