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…