Louise Culot, Mélanie Wenger / 22.05.2019

Petra de Sutter: “Women are conditioned not to believe in themselves”

Petra de Sutter, 55, is a professor of gynaecology, head of the reproductive medicine department at Ghent University Hospital in Belgium and a politician. She is one of few transgender MEPs and she’s running as a Green candidate for the 2019 European elections.

Airi Triisberg / 17.05.2019

How to organise communities of color? Interwiev with Monica Gathuo

In Estonia the voices of people of color are often missing from conversations about racism. Also the most visible part…

Liisi Mölder, Birgit Püve / 14.05.2019

Kristel Kruustük: “You can never please everyone”

Kristel Kruustük, 29, is the co-founder of Testlio, a startup that tests software. Nominated ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ in 2017…

Alexander Chekmenev, Tatiana Kozak / 22.04.2019

Elena Maslova: “I’m restless and not only fighting at the mine”

Elena Maslova, 45, has spent most of her adult life operating an underground iron ore mine hoist in Kryviy Ryh,…

Amélie Losier, Julia Korbik / 21.03.2019

Kristina Hänel: “Everyone is concerned when it comes to abortions”

Physician Kristina Hänel, 62, was sued for ‘promoting’ abortions on her website. Today, she has become a historic figure for…

Hannah Goldstein, Barbara Majsa / 14.03.2019

Greta Thunberg: “We need to change the system”

Greta Thunberg, 16, is a Swedish climate activist. In December 2018, her speech at the UN Climate Change Summit in…

Feministeerium / 14.03.2019

Sisters of Europe: A series of interviews with inspirational women

In 2019, Feministeerium is cooperating with Sisters of Europe to bring you a series of interviews with 17 committed women…

Feminists against nationalism / 31.01.2019

Teachers’ strikes in Lithuania: it’s women, so why pay them?

Teachers’ strikes in Lithuania are quite common, especially compared to all other sectors: they happen once every other year and…

Kristi Saare / 30.01.2019

What do these women still want?*

When you look at general statistics, it is difficult to argue against the fact that wages are rising, the economy…

Elise Rohtmets / 12.10.2018

Who’s Afraid of the Cultural Marxist?

On Saturday, October 6 2018, the US Senate confirmed Brett Kavanaugh as a new Supreme Court justice, replacing the moderate…

Jana Kukaine / 17.08.2018

Post-Gender Families: New Perspectives on Parenthood

There are many myths surrounding the notion of family and parenting. Some of them can be  dismantled with a feminist…

Airi Triisberg / 10.08.2018

The sexual politics of asylum

In recent years Estonian society has been at the centre of heated debate in two topics. One of them relates…

Kadi Viik / 08.06.2018

Jeff Hearn: being a man is not unequivocally valued

Professor Jeff Hearn has done research on men and masculinities for more than 40 years and at an international conference…

Christian Veske-McMahon / 23.04.2018

The Pearl necklace is very….hetero

We met in Tallinn and now we’ve been married for almost five years. Timothy and I – complicated navigation between…

Kaarin Kivirähk / 22.02.2018

Quinn Latimer: #metoo movement is literally driven by the media

Quinn Latimer is a poet, critic, and editor of one of the world’s largest art events documenta14 publications last year.…

Tarun Gidwani / 19.02.2018

Testosterone, what are you making these men do?

Maybe masculine aggression springs from testes. After all, injecting testosterone, at least to some extent, spikes levels of aggression in…

Tarun Gidwani / 19.12.2017

Why are you so angry?

Last week, I was reading a blog by the Chinese novelist Xiolu Guo in which she pours out her anger…