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.
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 in Estonia, she’s the youngest female millionaire in the country and a prominent figure in the European tech industry.
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, central Ukraine. She also defends workers rights and is an active member of the miner’s trade union.
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 the legalisation of abortion in Germany.
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 Poland made international headlines after she criticised world leaders for their inaction.
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 in 17 different countries. Read the first interview with the Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg.
Teachers’ strikes in Lithuania: it’s women, so why pay them?
Teachers' strike is women's strike. It's a strike for gender equality not only in law but also in material reality.
What do these women still want?*
Estonia is proud to be a digitally well-developed country; why can we not be a socially developed country?
Who’s Afraid of the Cultural Marxist?
It’s appalling that the political discourse in Estonia has reached a point where even a moderate centrist will admit that we’ve gone into excessive, mostly leftist extremes. What are they talking about?
Post-Gender Families: New Perspectives on Parenthood
Married heterosexual fathers typically score lowest on parental involvement and skills, but they improve notably when faced with single parenthood.
The sexual politics of asylum
In recent years Estonian society has been at the centre of heated debate in two topics.
Jeff Hearn: being a man is not unequivocally valued
Masculinity researcher Jeff Hearn in an interview about why men, who often have more power in society than women, still can find themself powerless and how the cover-up of sexual harassment may have bigger consequences than the original act.