In cooperation with the Belgrade Center for Security Policy I published a policy brief on the development in practice of a FFP in the post Yugoslav sphere. Titled „A Feminist Foreign Policy in Practice: Introducing an Institutional Framework for Implementation in the Post -Yugoslav Sphere the brief looks at structural and institutional change required to …
Women’s struggle: Women rights and communism in the 20th century
The international women’s day roots in the activities of socialist organisations and activists in the beginning of the 20th century. In the US and Europe those early socialist feminists fought for the introduction of an international day for the struggle of women. In 1917 the 8th of March became a national holiday in Soviet Russia. …
Political mobilization on the agenda: national teachers’ strike in Poland
Since Monday, thousands of teachers are on strike in Poland and a wave of solidarity covers the country. Read this article about the background of this strike, its meaning for the political culture of Poland and about solidarity.
The avant-garde of queer culture on the rise: drag in North Macedonia
Four courageous young people fight their creative battle for an open-minded society in one of the most homophobic countries of Europe. An interview with the drag queens from Skopje.
Hidden in the closet. LGBT rights in the Western Balkans
The other day a friend sat down with me in his old, but cozy apartment which he shares with a hamster and a bird; where you have to go outside to get to the bathroom and where the walls and shelves are decorated with crosses and other religious symbols. My friend is a very religious …