Gender Democracy Program news COVID-19 uniquely affects women. Here are many of the ways it does. Analytics The gender dimensions of the pandemic are numerous and numbingly severe, but they are not new and not surprising. By Liane Schalatek Care economy: transformations of communities, the civil society and state policies in times of quarantine Analytics Oksana Potapova spoke with activists working for women's and human rights organizations about key changes in their work and life over the recent months. By Oksana Potapova The Pandemic, Coronavirus, and Quarantine: Women at Risk Analytics The consequences of COVID-19 for society are yet to be studied. However, we can already predict the impact of the pandemic on the situation of women in Ukraine. By Olena Strelnyk LGBT and Feminism: Why Does Gender Equality Bother Conservatives? Event On December 10, a private discussion “LGBT and Feminism: Why Does Gender Equality Bother Conservatives?” was held as part of the Human Rights (un)conference. By Nastia Kushnarenko Sorom i Pozor (“Shame”) Project in Ivano-Frankivsk Report 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 Equality March KyivPride 2019 Report 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 Exhibition and Lecture Series: “Fearless: They Create Feminism in Ukraine. Part I” Report 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) 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. pdf
COVID-19 uniquely affects women. Here are many of the ways it does. Analytics The gender dimensions of the pandemic are numerous and numbingly severe, but they are not new and not surprising. By Liane Schalatek
Care economy: transformations of communities, the civil society and state policies in times of quarantine Analytics Oksana Potapova spoke with activists working for women's and human rights organizations about key changes in their work and life over the recent months. By Oksana Potapova
The Pandemic, Coronavirus, and Quarantine: Women at Risk Analytics The consequences of COVID-19 for society are yet to be studied. However, we can already predict the impact of the pandemic on the situation of women in Ukraine. By Olena Strelnyk
LGBT and Feminism: Why Does Gender Equality Bother Conservatives? Event On December 10, a private discussion “LGBT and Feminism: Why Does Gender Equality Bother Conservatives?” was held as part of the Human Rights (un)conference. By Nastia Kushnarenko
Sorom i Pozor (“Shame”) Project in Ivano-Frankivsk Report 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
Equality March KyivPride 2019 Report 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
Exhibition and Lecture Series: “Fearless: They Create Feminism in Ukraine. Part I” Report 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)
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. pdf
