Feminism

The Spanish elections will take place this week and a less talked about, yet crucial, theme is slowly making its appearance in the realm of Spanish politics: Spain’s growing aging population and incredibly low birthrates. A combination which is effectively building up to an explosive crisis of social reproduction. For much of the 20th century, […]

Women across the world were protesting on March 8 on International Women’s Day, demanding life without fear, violence, exploitation and oppression, marching together against domestic violence, transphobia, inequality and many other issues that women are facing across the globe. These pictures are showing us once again that women cannot be silenced, that their place is […]

The following interview was conducted by Hannah Schultes with three of the members of LevFem, Zhivka Valiavicharska, Neda Genova, Raia Apostolova – a newly formed anti-capitalist queer-feminist collective in Sofia, Bulgaria. LevFem participated actively in the mobilization of the protest that marked the International Day Against Violence Against Women in Sofia in 2018. The collective emerged a few weeks prior to […]

“In our practical work we do not stick to the pre-existing patterns, or defined and given forms of political resistances, but praise the ideas of freedom, peace and equality, which we strongly stand for in our daily struggles. In the context of global shrinking of space for civil society activities, and seriously jeopardized freedom and […]

Ankica Čakardić is an assistant professor and the chair of Social Philosophy and Philosophy of Gender at the Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. Her research interest include Social Philosophy, Marxism, Marxist-feminist and Luxemburgian critique of political economy, and history of women’s struggles in Yugoslavia. She is a member of The Complete Works of […]

This interview was first published on the Spanish magazine CTXT. Emilia Roig is the founder and executive director of the Berlin-based Centre for Intersectional Justice. The CIJ advocates for effective and inclusive anti-discrimination policies in order to address structural inequalities in Europe. Roig holds a PhD in Political Science from Humboldt University and Sciences Po Lyon. […]

On January 16, a group of women from Macedonia started sharing on social media their personal testimonies of sexual harassment committed by perpetrators in positions of power, using the hashtags #ISpeakUpNow – #СегаКажувам in Macedonian and #TaniTregoj in Albanian. Back then, this was the variation of the #MeToo campaign that gained attention in the Balkans. […]

Inappropriate emails with a sexual subtext, unprofessional behaviour, and abuses of power. That is the story at one of the most expensive private universities in the Czech Republic

STEPHANIE WILLIAMSON Almost a month has passed since Ireland’s historic abortion referendum was won by a groundswell of grassroots feminist activism. A large majority (66.4%) voted to repeal the country’s eighth constitutional amendment, opening the door to proposed legislation to allow abortions up to 12 weeks. Huge numbers of repeal campaigners and voters were young […]

*The following is an edited transcript of an interview conducted for European Alternatives’ forthcoming documentary, Demos: Solidarity in Europe.  While activists, unions and political parties are looking for strategies to build alliances to contest the rise of far right and xenophobia across the globe, the feminist movement has proved in the past decade that there are […]