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Pat Byrne on feminism – part 1

Maria Cernat
Analysis
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Pat Byrne is a longstanding labor activist. He was on the executive board of large unions in Great Britain and had a passion for exploring the history of the leftist movements in his country and across...

Vaishnavi Sundar: an Indian gender-critical feminist – part 1

Maria Cernat
Gender issues
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Vaishnavi Sundar is an Indian feminist and filmmaker. She joins this episode of On the Barricades to explore the faces of feminism in India. When they talk about India, people instinctively think of poverty, castes,...

Feminism in Turkey – an Epic Battle With a Neoliberal Conservative President

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Citizens Movements
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Being a feminist in a conservative country with a government that overtly fights to limit the rights of women can be a very challenging task. Nevertheless, there are fierce women that do not back down...

Feminism in Italy and the US Return to Demonizing Putin!

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Gender issues
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Italy was the EU country that significantly suffered the Pandemics for quite a while. It was the first Western European country to implement national lockdown. After the three years Giuseppe Conti, an independent technocrat that...

Sofia Nădejde — looking up to an Eastern European feminist-socialist hero

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Gender issues
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Sofia Nădejde was a Romanian novelist, playwright, translator, journalist, women's rights activist and socialist. She had an amazing life and an amazing career. It made her an exceptional character that is most definitely worth looking...

The case of Kamala Harris and feminism

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Gender issues
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The aesthetics of feminism have never been so trendy! Take the idea that the feminist struggle is one of individual emancipation - in that case, we can be delighted with what we've achieved: Women are...

Harriet Fraad discusses controversial chapters in the history of feminism

Renowned feminist, activist, author, and psychotherapist Harriet Fraad comes on the Barricades to discuss matters related to a very dark chapter in the history of feminism and civic movements. For feminists in Eastern Europe, it...

Poland: Rage and fury after yet another fundamentalist excess

Boyan Stanislavski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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[caption id="attachment_2533" align="alignleft" width="169"] Protest in front of the Holy Cross church in Warsaw, the banner reads "no!", photo: Boyan Stanislavski[/caption] Since the shocking verdict of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal last Thursday, which resulted in...

The Polish war on women is over 30 years old

Boyan Stanislavski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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Poland has had one of the most draconian anti-abortion laws in Europe since 1993. On Thursday a constitutional court ruled that one of the three exceptions to the ban – cases of severe foetal impairment...

The incitement to hatred in the public sphere must stop!

Maria Cernat
Gender issues
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Hate speech and incitement to violence against women in Romania is not something new. What is new is the fact that there is resistance against it. Andreea Rusu, Executive Director of the Center Filia, talked...