About

Feministeerium is an independent feminist organisation whose main areas of activity are communication, advocacy and empowerment of the feminist community.

Feministeerium serves its country and its people. Our ambition is to be a moral beacon as well as a gracious feminist space.

We work to make Estonia a post-patriarchal society and to give the feminist community a room of its own. We love facts, nuance, passion, experiments, strong arguments and the rainbow (in Estonia, also known as pink slime). We work hard and play hard.

We have great guest authors, translators and illustrators (about 80 per year), and we always look forward to new contributions. We are particularly interested in all things related to current events, but welcome all texts and visual work that opens up a feminist perspective, be it on politics, culture, or all things feminine. We strive to offer a plurality of well-argued opinions, not just a single narrow view (the one and true feminism). You can write in Estonian, Russian, or English. Our editorial board reserves the right to choose which contributions will be published.

If you have any questions, suggestions, tips or other ideas for contributions, let us know. The e-mail addresses of all Feministeerium employees are in the form firstname@feministeerium.ee

Get an overview of our funding and organisational key documents.

Collective

Aet Kuusik

Aet is a doctoral student in linguistics at the University of Tartu, studying the relationship between gender, sexuality and language. Aet has worked as an editor and playwright, and organised all kinds of queer and feminist events.

Kadi Viik

Kadi Viik is an editor and contributor. She has a background in human rights and has previously worked for the Estonian government and the UN. When she is not writing for Feministeerium, she is probably somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere observing elections, or volunteering for social causes in Estonia. She believes in the power of grassroots activism and writing.

Nele Laos

Nele Laos is Feministeerium’s co-founder and project manager. Nele is a cultural manager and researched young people’s understanding of sexual consent in Estonia for her MA in Sociology at Tallinn University. She initiated the Tallinn Feminist Forum, co-organized the “Solidary Women’s Day” initiative and co-produced the sex-educational youth play “How to say yes?”.

Kaimai Kuldkepp

Kaimai Kuldkepp is a project manager and the editor of the Feministeerium’s newsletter. She is a jack of many trades with equal commitment to environmental justice and human rights issues. Kaimai has studied economics at TalTech’s master’s program and recreation organization and organizational behavior at Tallinn University. She has a wide range of interests from illustration to extreme sports, but above all she is an avid reader.

Jana Levitina

Jana Levitina is a Russian editor. A Rustonian (i.e. Russian-Estonian-speaking) feminist who fights for Russian-language feminitives and tries to spread the ideas of feminism and empower gender minorities. Jana has created a feminist online community of Russian-speaking women living in Estonia.

Julia Tisler

Julia Tisler is a Russian editor. She also works as the editor of the ETV+ TV-channel and the Russian-language science portal nauka.err.ee. She is convinced that a scientific approach will save the world. Her motto is “I know that I know nothing”. She is curious and always open to new knowledge. Working at Feministeerium is another opportunity for her to do what she likes and contribute to the improvement of society.

Elise Rohtmets

Elise Rohtmets is an advocacy expert and community specialist. When she is not lecturing engineers in philosophy or writing an article, she can be found where the music is playing. Elise likes to hang out at Ülase 12, organize smaller concerts, play the drums and read the latest literature on evolutionary biology. Her favorite animals are bats, which, like her, take flight only after sunset.

Triin Sepp

Triin Sepp is an editor. Since her educational background is in folkloristics, she knows very well how important well-written stories are for humans. In her free time Triin has her hand in the local drag scene and passionately enjoys handicrafts and video games.

Hille Hanso

Hille Hanso is a co-author and a developer of foreign relations. She is an expert and analyst of the foreign policy of Middle Eastern countries and Turkey. Among other things she studies and reflects on the situation of feminism, activism and human rights. Hanso has a master’s degree in Middle Eastern Studies from Istanbul, where she also lives most of the time. On parental leave.

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