Gender

This interview was first published in Salon, the supplement of the Czech daily Právo. In the article Gender as symbolic glue: how ‘gender’ became an umbrella term for the rejection of the (neo)liberal order, you wrote with Weronika Grzebalska and Andrea Pető about the gender as a symbol for various deficiencies in society. Why did […]

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, […]

Transnational Social Stike Platform is publishing the fourth «weekly striker» approaching the next global feminist strike on March 8th (see also nr. 1, 2 and 3). This weekly striker is dedicated to the experience of organization of Non Una di Meno (Italy). They spoke with Roberta Ferrari, who discusses the way in which the feminist strike has reactivated an unexpected […]

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 […]

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 […]

Trans people in the UK have faced a “deluge of hatred” and an increasingly “hostile environment” online, say LGBTQ+ rights activists. Social media platforms including Twitter and YouTube have policies intended to prevent discriminatory and hateful content, but activists say they’re not working. “If I said I was transgender or supportive of transgender people on […]

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. […]

“Cannibals coming out of my sex (…)” It is quite hard to grasp all the lyrics from the song “Cannibal babies” by LA based musician and artist Geneva Jacuzzi. I do really hope that Geneva doesn’t mind me using parts of her song for inspiration: imagine all those men in white (but sometimes women too), […]

Women in the Czech Republic receive lower salaries than men and are more at risk of poverty. When will this change?