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Program news

Visitors at the opening of the Pozor exhibition

Sorom i Pozor (“Shame”) Project in Ivano-Frankivsk

In October a project combining the exhibition Pozor and the screening of a documentary entitled Sorom took place. It studied the limits of taboo around sexual themes in Galician and Hutsul areas.

By Nastia Kushnarenko and Natalia Slipenko

Safe Space and Sisterhood at Femencamp 2019

Report

Femencamp took place on August 2–8, 2019. The window for applications was only open for 3 weeks, yet the organizers received a total of 131 applications for participation and selected 25 participants.

By Nastia Kushnarenko

An Equality March participant with a poster "Proud to be me"

Equality March KyivPride 2019

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The Equality March took place on June 23, becoming a pinnacle of KyivPride 2019 week. It was the fifth time this event happened, now gathering over 8 thousand participants.

By Nastia Kushnarenko

Project author and speaker Tamara Martseniuk is standing in front of event visitors

Exhibition and Lecture Series: “Fearless: They Create Feminism in Ukraine. Part I”

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The exhibition opened on March 1 with a lecture by its author Tamara Martseniuk “Ukrainian Feminism from the ‘90s until Today: Those Who Dared to Overcome Fear.”

By Nastia Kushnarenko

Gender Educational Experiment": School Revolution from KRONA NGO and its Partners

Starting from January 2015, the Gender Educational Experiment has been taking place in 8 schools of Kharkiv region with the support of Heinrich Boell Foundaiton. Its aim is to create an educational space free from gender stereotypes and discrimination, where people are able and ready to identify, notice, analyze and react with their reflections and actions to everything that has to do with gender inequality, gender stereotypes and sexism.

The international academic conference “Multiculturalism. Gender. Identity. Queer studies in the post-soviet region”

We are pleased to invite you to take part in the international academic practice conference “Multiculturalism. Gender. Identity. Queer research in the post-soviet region” (June 16-17, 2017, Kyiv, Ukraine)

Destroyed houses around Slavyansk. In war situations, women are pushed out of the public and into the private sphere which has long since ceased to be the place of homey home

The Voice of Non-Militants: the Experience of Women from Eastern Ukraine

In times of war, when only the voice of arms is heard, the voice of the unarmed is lost; however it is essential to listen to the latter because sooner or later the arms will go silent and it will be necessary to start learning to live in peace.

Program publications

Materials of the V International Gender Workshop “Gender and (Military) Conflicts in Easter-European Countries through Feminist Lenses”

This publication collects texts created on the basis of some of the presentations from the event.

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