International Women’s Network in Estonia

On 2 November, 2019, we are organizing a community event - Tallinn Feminist Forum (TAFF). Would you, your organization or informal group like to contribute to the program? Leave your proposal until August 8.

Amina Cadelli, aka Flèche Love, 28, is a Swiss-Algerian musician and composer who is defending a spiritual approach to feminism. After completing her studies in post-colonialism and gender in Geneva, she became the singer for electro-pop band Kadebostany.

Made up of two pairs of sisters in their twenties, the Haveit collective uses art and performance to draw attention to issues like LGBTQ rights or violence against women, still considered taboos in Kosovo today.

Petra de Sutter is the head of the reproductive medicine department at in Belgium and is one of few transgender MEPs, running as a Green candidate for the 2019 European elections.

In Estonia the voices of people of color are often missing from conversations about racism.

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, 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.

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, 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.

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' strike is women's strike. It's a strike for gender equality not only in law but also in material reality.

Estonia is proud to be a digitally well-developed country; why can we not be a socially developed country?

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?

Married heterosexual fathers typically score lowest on parental involvement and skills, but they improve notably when faced with single parenthood.

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

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.

If we think specifically about the male body wearing jewelry, in the modern era it is not a popular thing. The male body has limited acceptable formats of jewelry. We have cufflinks, tie tacks, lapel pins, and depending on the generational demographic, maybe a man wears earrings, a ring or a pinky ring.

Of course a male artist can be a feminist. Feminism is a methodology of struggle, of resistance. Most of the men in my life—my father, my husband, my closest male friends—are feminists. I could not be close to any man that was not.

Maybe masculine aggression springs from testes. After all, injecting testosterone, at least to some extent, spikes levels of aggression in not only human males, but chimp and other monkey males too.

Last week, I was reading a blog by the Chinese novelist Xiolu Guo in which she pours out her anger against the oppression she faced in her heartbreakingly tough life.

Ülase12 is a collectively organized, non-hierarchical social centre that places itself in the spectrum of leftist movement politics.

Similarly to Estonia, the constitution of Romania defines family as a gender-neutral institution based on the marriage of spouses.

Hanna had recently met a guy. “Oh no”, we despaired with friends, as there seemed to be no end to the stories about him.

We, the women of Poland, have watched the emergence of the biggest threat to American democracy in the person of Donald Trump with a sickening feeling of familiarity.