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.
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