Women’s Day: time to gaze beyond the mirror
On 8th of March (and always) we invite you to focus on intersectionality and think about how the plight of other marginalized groups affects us all.
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.
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?
Wars do not stand in isolation from each other, they are linked by violent structures
We must condemn all wars and treat people seeking refuge from war in a much more humane and dignified manner.
Celebrate Women’s Day with us!
Celebrate the weekend of International Women's Day on March 7th with us! Reading group discussion, lecture on vegan feminism, yoga workshop and party!
Teachers’ strikes in Lithuania: it’s women, so why pay them?
Teachers' strike is women's strike. It's a strike for gender equality not only in law but also in material reality.
The sexual politics of asylum
In recent years Estonian society has been at the centre of heated debate in two topics.
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.
Remedies for political loneliness
Ülase12 is a collectively organized, non-hierarchical social centre that places itself in the spectrum of leftist movement politics.
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.
To the Women of America and the World– a warning and a rallying cry from Poland
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.
Capitalism’s Crisis of Care
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.