Organisers of LGBTQ+ film festival in Russia: “We were a little naïve about the backlash that was going to happen!”
Estonian Rainbow Heroes of Culture, Gulya Sultanova and Manny de Guerre, who ran the LGBTQ+ film festival Side by Side in Russia, compare working in an atmosphere of bomb threats, intimidation and self-censorship to working to promote human rights in Russia in Estonia, where they run Q-Space, LGBTQ+ cultural program mainly aimed at the Russian-speaking community.
Bahraini women are not expected to do housework but have fewer other rights
How are women and minorities faring in a tiny Gulf state ruled by a conservative, patriarchal, Islam-influenced monarchy?
The analysis of Syrian uprising is still missing a fundamental element: the grassroots level
Do experts have a sufficiently comprehensive knowledge of the Syrian revolution or is there something important that is missing from the overall discussion?
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.
Post-Gender Families: New Perspectives on Parenthood
Married heterosexual fathers typically score lowest on parental involvement and skills, but they improve notably when faced with single parenthood.
Quinn Latimer: #metoo movement is literally driven by the media
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.
It’s the bloody law
Estonians, don’t want my blood and it makes me very sad; and angry.
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 UN’s fourth women’s conference in Beijing “Women for equality, development and peace”.