Opinion

A magazine cover announcing a baby bump, a new life… but this time the pregnant person wore a beard and moustache. “Diversity is a source of enrichment,” reads the headline. Something is not right about this, argues Monica from Italy.

Jennifer Guerra criticizes the widespread tendency to exclude trans women from the feminist movement. Monopolized by white cisgender and heterosexual middle-class women, she writes, “contemporary feminism risks reiterating the same binary logic of the patriarchy it combats.”

“The transition invites you to choose yourself, and to love yourself. But sometimes to choose ourselves we have to let go of something else, no matter how painful letting go is. Life was moving on and we, as a couple, were left behind.” Read more about Melissa Ianniello and her visual project depicting her relationship with her former partner who decided to transition while they were still together.

When I asked Sasha what she thought about feminists who claim that trans women are still men, sneaking patriarchal ideologies into feminist spaces, she shut that claim down with a reminder not to reduce women to their genitalia... “Who am I to represent anyone else, be they a feminist or a trans woman, and who is anyone else to represent me?” Sasha asks.

I am a feminist because I believe in my right to be me, and not a version of me dictated by some state, God, party, man or even another feminist woman.

In order to launch the MedfemiNiswiya platform, the first of things was to pronounce this name with all its multidimensional aspects. MedfemiNiswiya: a seashell-sounding title, rustling in the Latin language coupled with Arabic, which turns up with the N of Niswiya...

Belgrade-based actress Milena Radulović reported her former acting teacher Miroslav Mika Aleksić for rape that took place on several occasions nine years ago. Back then, Milena was a 17-year-old attending the “Stvar srca” (“Matter of the Heart”) acting school run by this — tentatively speaking — educator.

The Hirak is a popular and unifying movement but is it feminist? Considered as sacrilegious for some, the issue must be addressed as women should no longer be overlooked by History.