Maali Suitso

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.

Nancy Fraser is a professor of philosophy and politics at The New School for Social Research and one of the most respected critical theorists working today.

“Why do you describe Ülase12 as a feminist space?

A lonely dispatch from Estonia’s only feminist.

It is going to be a long article, so make yourself a cup of tea.

Estonians, don’t want my blood and it makes me very sad; and angry.

It happened in 2004 I think, when my life changed.

Last week I attended the Estonian Women’s Studies and Resource Centre (ENUT for short) celebration of 20 years since the UN’s fourth women’s conference in Beijing “Women for equality, development and peace”.

Capitalism is in decay in Kuressaare.

“Oh, and I thought there was a nice young man sitting there!