Feminism

Following a landmark year, in which the feminist movement finally „went mainstream” in many countries, International Women’s Day 2018 was about providing visibility of problems, but, more importantly, furthering solutions and strategies for change. There were new policy proposals, like those offered by Italy’s Nonunadimeno, new protest discourses like Spain’s 'feminist strike’, and an ever deeper […]

Following a landmark year, in which the feminist movement finally „went mainstream” in many countries, International Women’s Day 2018 was about providing visibility of problems, but, more importantly, furthering solutions and strategies for change. There were new policy proposals, like those offered by Italy’s Nonunadimeno, new protest discourses like Spain’s 'feminist strike’, and an ever deeper […]

At a time before feminism was a mainstream movement, before 8 March was reclaimed as a global project of emancipation, four journalists from the Basque Country decided to launch a project that would influence the way gendered discourse is narrated in the Spanish media. Since 2010 Pikara Magazine has shown that in order to create pluralistic and […]

What is Kuchnia Konfliktu and who are Superbohaterki? Natalia Sawka introduces the new Polish feminism.

I was marching in Zagreb with fAKTIV last year. Emotional and powerful, the Night March that they organised gathered between 6000 and 8000 people, more than anyone could have imagined. The protest was the consolidation of a number of years of mobilisation, a symptom of feminist anger in Croatia that is growing bigger with every […]

On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, on March 8, 2018, at 3 pm, the Women to the Castle! march and assembly will take place, starting at Klárov and terminating at Hradčanské náměstí. The event organized by March the 8th Coalition is not just a reminder of what the women’s movement has gained in […]

Tarana Burke, an American civil rights activist, was the first to use the phrase ‘Me Too’ in 2006 in order to “raise awareness of the pervasiveness of sexual abuse and assault in society.” In 2017 the actress Alyssa Milano started using the hashtag in response to accusations of sexual harassment against Harvey Weinstein and other […]

Across her diverse body of work, Carmen Castro, a specialist in European Gender Policies, offers a fierce criticism of the system that surrounds us, focusing on gender inequality in the jobs market and in particular on ‘self-care’, 'time’ and 'labour’. She maintains that patriarchal domination extends from the domestic level to the 'macro’ level, via […]

I like austere bars. Bars without affectation, bars that have survived in the antipodes of the cute cafeteria or the pretentious gastrobar, so fashionable nowadays. I like them, above all, because their aesthetic disability allows their guests to relax. And there is something in its decadent and neglected atmosphere that, as a woman, I envy. […]

Estimates suggest that over 150,000 gathered in Rome on the 25-26 November to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. In Italy, where gendered violence remains high and the subject treated as a sensationalist emergency rather than a structural problem, this was a strong turnout, notable for its cross-generational dimension. The main […]