Homophobia at the Core of Putinism’s Ideological Positioning: Historical Dynamics
On opposite sides of the frontline On September 30, 2022, Russian leader Vladimir Putin delivered a speech in the Kremlin’s St. George’s Hall to mark the annexation of four Ukrainian regions. More than eight years earlier, Putin had spoken in the same hall to celebrate his first annexation — that of Crimea. However, the context […]
Nobody Could Prepare You for the War: Interview with Croatian Feminist Biljana Kasic
Biljana Kašić is a feminist theorist as well as peace and civil activist from Croatia. She is one of the leaders of the Centre for Women’s Studies (Zagreb), the co-founder of many feminist initiatives since the eighties of the twentieth century and engaged feminist at the international level. As a professor at the Department of […]
The price of war for women: new roles, emerging challenges
Women around the world continue to suffer from injustice and inequality. War deepens not only existing problems of sexualized violence and burden of reproduction but also creates new challenges: displacement, unemployment, or the need to protect one's community. During wartime, women and girls become both victims of aggression, soldiers, activists, refugees, and single mothers. In […]
Transnational feminist solidarity with the Woman Life Freedom uprising in Iran
Sign the manifesto Following a year of struggles and war, and to mark the one-year anniversary of the feminist uprising in Iran, a group of feminists united in the Transnational Feminist Assembly located in France initiated the following manifesto, published in several languages. The Transnational Feminist Assembly is a feminist self-education network that aims to […]
Evacuation, transition and mutual aid. Trans*people telling their wartime stories
For more than a year, Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine has been ruining the lives of Ukrainian people. Everyone has been affected by the war in one way or another. Transgender people, however, who had been struggling with issues unusual and unapparent for most even before the invasion, had found themselves in an even […]
“The right to resist.” A feminist manifesto
Sign the manifesto We, feminists from Ukraine, call on feminists around the world to stand in solidarity with the resistance movement of the Ukrainian people against the predatory, imperialist war unleashed by the Russian Federation. War narratives often portray women* as victims. However, in reality, women* also play a key role in resistance movements, both […]
What we can learn from Georgia’s social workers’ struggle
Although Georgia differs significantly from Ukraine in size and population, we have much in common. In particular, we are united by the past, as well as the common, albeit different in scale, the experience of invasion by the Russian Federation, respectively — war, destruction, displacement of large numbers of people and the resulting poverty. However, […]
Who cares? Kindergartens in the context of gender inequality
What is the significance of kindergartens for society? How do they affect the economic activity of young mothers? What are the working conditions and salaries of kindergarten workers? How should a network of preschools be developed to improve the situation of women and overcome gender inequality? The publication presents the results of a study of […]
Does the ‘Great Sex Work Debate’ matter at all? The real-world implications of the two strategies
The debate about how the state should regulate sex work seems to be everlasting. Some feminists strongly insist on the need for regulation, while others point out an inherent ethical contradiction: “How can one be a feminist and opt to legalize a trade that harms the very selfhood of a ‘worker’?” The two sides are […]
Organising for peace in Ukraine: an interview with Nina Potarska
The war in eastern Ukraine is now in its sixth year. As the war has entered a “slower”, but no less deadly phase, attention, particularly in the west, has dropped off. Contributors to openDemocracy have sought to draw attention to a range of issues which tend to go unreported – activists trying to bridge the divide […]
