Joanna Wolska is a sworn translator who used to like her boring life and was doing little more than reading…
Feministeerium interviews Aws Jubair, a humanitarian aid worker, refugee and LGBTQ+ activist based in Turkey. He is one of the…
How to depict bodily autonomy? How to express interest and desire or reluctance to sexual attention or activity? What kind…
The article was written with the aim of talking about sexual crimes in Estonia, more specifically about the danger of…
What are the feminist narratives in Pakistan? How are women affected by militarism, patriarchy, unstable neighbouring countries, Islam and colonial…
We publish an account of a non-consensual sexual relationship sent by one of our readers.* It is a story of…
Kevin Snow, a former Fulbright scholar in political science who worked as a researcher in Estonia, analyzes the geographical identity…
In February, a few days after the start of the war, Russian feminists joined forces and formed an anti-war resistance…
Feminist scholars had a long time ago pointed out that militarization of society in the conditions of war usually “cements”…
Like Ukraine today, Syria has endured multiple horrors of war. The difference is that to the war in Syria, the…
What has the war meant for women? Hille Hanso talked to Maryna Shevtsova, a Ukrainian scholar, feminist and activist, about…
I feel that more people have started to actively speak up and get involved with social justice topics in Estonia,…
Recently, when I held a workshop about gender stereotypes in the media at the 2021 Tallinn Feminist Forum, the organizer…
Transgender people in Estonia are aware of what awaits those who turn to psychiatrist and sexologist Dr Imre Rammul, head…
At the end of next week, 2nd to 5th of September Kaunas Pride, an independent grassroots-organised pride event will take…
Following the Turkish president’s single-handed dismissal of The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and…
Nika Nazarova’s lovely cartoon is about internalised misogyny, or the desire not to be like other girls, and the journey…
Women are more affected by the impacts of climate change than men. But given the chance, they can play a…
Rebeka Põldsam interviews Paris based curator Barbara Sirieix about the mobilisation of art workers in the current strike against the…
We invite you on March 7th at the celebration of the weekend of International Women’s Day. You are welcomed to…
Kyle Martin from USA, who has been living in Estonia for six years, wrote to us about the conversations he…
On Saturday, the first Estonian feminist forum was held in Tallinn. Equal rights supporters from Estonia and neighboring countries recognized…
Annija Sprīvule and Anete Biteniece are educators and activists from Latvia who want to remind activists about the importance of…
You can support Estonia’s first-ever feminist forum on Hooandja crowdfunding platform. The forum is a meeting place for equal rights…
“Oh wow, you were bigger the last time we met,” an acquaintance once told me when we met for the…
I identify as transgender, specifically non-binary. So you’d think I am well-versed in gender theory. However, every time I think…
An awful lot of phenomena are behind the rise of nationalism and xenophobia today. I would be careful with any…
This year on 2 November we will host a community event – the Tallinn Feminist Forum (TAFF) – and we…
On 2 November, 2019, we are organizing a community event – Tallinn Feminist Forum (TAFF) – where people from both…
Amina Cadelli, aka Flèche Love, 28, is a Swiss-Algerian musician and composer. After completing her studies in post-colonialism and gender…
Made up of two pairs of sisters in their twenties, the Haveit collective uses art and performance to draw attention…
Petra de Sutter, 55, is a professor of gynaecology, head of the reproductive medicine department at Ghent University Hospital in…
In Estonia the voices of people of color are often missing from conversations about racism. Also the most visible part…
Kristel Kruustük, 29, is the co-founder of Testlio, a startup that tests software. Nominated ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ in 2017…
Elena Maslova, 45, has spent most of her adult life operating an underground iron ore mine hoist in Kryviy Ryh,…
Physician Kristina Hänel, 62, was sued for ‘promoting’ abortions on her website. Today, she has become a historic figure for…
Greta Thunberg, 16, is a Swedish climate activist. In December 2018, her speech at the UN Climate Change Summit in…
In 2019, Feministeerium is cooperating with Sisters of Europe to bring you a series of interviews with 17 committed women…
Teachers’ strikes in Lithuania are quite common, especially compared to all other sectors: they happen once every other year and…
When you look at general statistics, it is difficult to argue against the fact that wages are rising, the economy…
On Saturday, October 6 2018, the US Senate confirmed Brett Kavanaugh as a new Supreme Court justice, replacing the moderate…
There are many myths surrounding the notion of family and parenting. Some of them can be dismantled with a feminist…
In recent years Estonian society has been at the centre of heated debate in two topics. One of them relates…
Professor Jeff Hearn has done research on men and masculinities for more than 40 years and at an international conference…
We met in Tallinn and now we’ve been married for almost five years. Timothy and I – complicated navigation between…
Quinn Latimer is a poet, critic, and editor of one of the world’s largest art events documenta14 publications last year.…
Maybe masculine aggression springs from testes. After all, injecting testosterone, at least to some extent, spikes levels of aggression in…
Last week, I was reading a blog by the Chinese novelist Xiolu Guo in which she pours out her anger…
Ülase12 is a collectively organized, non-hierarchical social centre that places itself in the spectrum of leftist movement politics. Ülase12 is…
Similarly to Estonia, the constitution of Romania defines family as a gender-neutral institution based on the marriage of spouses. This…
Hanna had recently met a guy. “Oh no”, we despaired with friends, as there seemed to be no end to…
We, the women of Poland, have watched the emergence of the biggest threat to American democracy in the person of…
Nancy Fraser is a professor of philosophy and politics at The New School for Social Research and one of the…
“Why do you describe Ülase12 as a feminist space?” I’ve always been unable to produce a quick and convincing answer…
A lonely dispatch from Estonia’s only feminist. I never had a sister. I’m told this is why I don’t understand…
It is going to be a long article, so make yourself a cup of tea. I am thrilled by the…
Estonians, don’t want my blood and it makes me very sad; and angry. People have various manners to celebrate their…
It happened in 2004 I think, when my life changed. There are of course many changes in life; some of…
Last week I attended the Estonian Women’s Studies and Resource Centre (ENUT for short) celebration of 20 years since the…
Capitalism is in decay in Kuressaare. There, they care more about ideas than money.
“Oh, and I thought there was a nice young man sitting there!” exclaims a female colleague as she approaches the…