Activist’s life in Poland: trials and attempted murder
Joanna Wolska is a sworn translator who used to like her boring life and was doing little more than reading…
Rebeka Põldsam
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Humanitarian Aws Jubair: Attacks against LGBTQ+ people have increased in Turkey
Feministeerium interviews Aws Jubair, a humanitarian aid worker, refugee and LGBTQ+ activist based in Turkey. He is one of the…
Call for art works on sexual consent
How to depict bodily autonomy? How to express interest and desire or reluctance to sexual attention or activity? What kind…
Spiked drink at the bar. Two experiences
The article was written with the aim of talking about sexual crimes in Estonia, more specifically about the danger of…
Uzma Yakoob: Pakistani feminism is secular, diverse and inclusive
What are the feminist narratives in Pakistan? How are women affected by militarism, patriarchy, unstable neighbouring countries, Islam and colonial…
I did not consent to this. #MeToo story
We publish an account of a non-consensual sexual relationship sent by one of our readers.* It is a story of…
Have you ever heard of „Gayropa“?
Kevin Snow, a former Fulbright scholar in political science who worked as a researcher in Estonia, analyzes the geographical identity…
Anti-war activist Lölja Nordic: Russian people who stand against the war risk everything they have
In February, a few days after the start of the war, Russian feminists joined forces and formed an anti-war resistance…
Do wars have a sexual orientation? On the Russian invasion, LGBTQ rights and civil society resistance in Ukraine
Feminist scholars had a long time ago pointed out that militarization of society in the conditions of war usually “cements”…
Wars do not stand in isolation from each other, they are linked by violent structures
Like Ukraine today, Syria has endured multiple horrors of war. The difference is that to the war in Syria, the…
Ukrainian feminist activist Maryna Shevtsova: All women’s rights organisations have switched to emergency mode
What has the war meant for women? Hille Hanso talked to Maryna Shevtsova, a Ukrainian scholar, feminist and activist, about…
How to keep an activist healthy?
I feel that more people have started to actively speak up and get involved with social justice topics in Estonia,…
Swedish Gender Photographer Spends One Week Consuming Estonian Media
Recently, when I held a workshop about gender stereotypes in the media at the 2021 Tallinn Feminist Forum, the organizer…
A non-transparent system and assessment specialists, i.e. how the Estonian state treats transgender people
Transgender people in Estonia are aware of what awaits those who turn to psychiatrist and sexologist Dr Imre Rammul, head…
Kaunas Pride organizers: we do not want to hide, live in fear or conform to standards imposed on us
At the end of next week, 2nd to 5th of September Kaunas Pride, an independent grassroots-organised pride event will take…
Sanem Güner: Treating feminism as a Western invention perpetuates a myth from which Turkish conservatives have benefited greatly
Following the Turkish president’s single-handed dismissal of The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and…
Comic: Being “not like the other girls” wasn’t fun
Nika Nazarova’s lovely cartoon is about internalised misogyny, or the desire not to be like other girls, and the journey…
Five reasons why climate change and feminism are related issues
Women are more affected by the impacts of climate change than men. But given the chance, they can play a…
Artists against capitalism. French strike against neoliberal government and the inequality of social welfare
Rebeka Põldsam interviews Paris based curator Barbara Sirieix about the mobilisation of art workers in the current strike against the…
Celebrate Women’s Day with us!
We invite you on March 7th at the celebration of the weekend of International Women’s Day. You are welcomed to…
Why we need feminism here?
Kyle Martin from USA, who has been living in Estonia for six years, wrote to us about the conversations he…
TALFF: In a caring society, we need to listen to women and minority groups
On Saturday, the first Estonian feminist forum was held in Tallinn. Equal rights supporters from Estonia and neighboring countries recognized…
If we do not take care of ourselves, we cannot stand up for others
Annija Sprīvule and Anete Biteniece are educators and activists from Latvia who want to remind activists about the importance of…
Help to kickstart The Tallinn Feminist Forum
You can support Estonia’s first-ever feminist forum on Hooandja crowdfunding platform. The forum is a meeting place for equal rights…
On friendly sexism: Who wouldn’t like compliments?
“Oh wow, you were bigger the last time we met,” an acquaintance once told me when we met for the…
What in the world is this “gender” thing? A non-binary perspective
I identify as transgender, specifically non-binary. So you’d think I am well-versed in gender theory. However, every time I think…
To my fellow-men on the right
An awful lot of phenomena are behind the rise of nationalism and xenophobia today. I would be careful with any…
Tallinn Feminist Forum is looking for volunteers
This year on 2 November we will host a community event – the Tallinn Feminist Forum (TAFF) – and we…
Call for contributions: Tallinn Feminist Forum 2019 program
On 2 November, 2019, we are organizing a community event – Tallinn Feminist Forum (TAFF) – where people from both…
Amina Cadelli: “I grew up surrounded by women”
Amina Cadelli, aka Flèche Love, 28, is a Swiss-Algerian musician and composer. After completing her studies in post-colonialism and gender…
Haveit Collective: “When we get angry, we use it for our art”
Made up of two pairs of sisters in their twenties, the Haveit collective uses art and performance to draw attention…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
Remedies for political loneliness
Ülase12 is a collectively organized, non-hierarchical social centre that places itself in the spectrum of leftist movement politics. Ülase12 is…
We can’t put people in just one category
Similarly to Estonia, the constitution of Romania defines family as a gender-neutral institution based on the marriage of spouses. This…
Trouble with Polyamory
Hanna had recently met a guy. “Oh no”, we despaired with friends, as there seemed to be no end to…
To the Women of America and the World– a warning and a rallying cry from Poland
We, the women of Poland, have watched the emergence of the biggest threat to American democracy in the person of…
Capitalism’s Crisis of Care
Nancy Fraser is a professor of philosophy and politics at The New School for Social Research and one of the…
What is a feminist space? Ülase12 social centre and its politics of care
“Why do you describe Ülase12 as a feminist space?” I’ve always been unable to produce a quick and convincing answer…
Arguing with Women
A lonely dispatch from Estonia’s only feminist. I never had a sister. I’m told this is why I don’t understand…
Transfusing change into the Estonian Blood Donation System
It is going to be a long article, so make yourself a cup of tea. I am thrilled by the…
It’s the bloody law
Estonians, don’t want my blood and it makes me very sad; and angry. People have various manners to celebrate their…
Emerging Ideas in Masculinity Research: An Interview with Raewyn Connell
It happened in 2004 I think, when my life changed. There are of course many changes in life; some of…
There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women
Last week I attended the Estonian Women’s Studies and Resource Centre (ENUT for short) celebration of 20 years since the…
To cut or not to cut?
Capitalism is in decay in Kuressaare. There, they care more about ideas than money.
A Bald Woman?!
“Oh, and I thought there was a nice young man sitting there!” exclaims a female colleague as she approaches the…