“You have to choose the words of your answer to the interrogation question obsessively too, because they are going to determine how old you will be when you will be released from prison. And the...
In September 2023, poet Galina Rymbu writes a post on social media. The text moves between Omsk and Lviv and is an attempt to make visible how identities are created and reformulated in relation to...
Poetry and photography may at first glance seem like completely different forms of art. However, we often speak of poetry as something that conveys images. And poetry and photography have the...
To regional officials and entrepreneurs, the relatively unknown linguistic and ethnic diversity within the Russian Federation is a great resource. Travel agencies use enticing terms like “northern...
Text: Stefan Ingvarsson Translation: Anna Hörnell
October 17 2024
From the 1910 Women's Movement to Jîna Mahsa Amini: Over a Century of Struggle for Women's Rights and liberations in Iran. This text is written under pseudonym.
Message from Narges Mohammadi, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, on the Second Anniversary of Mahsa Jîna Amini's Death and the Start of the ‘Women, Life, Freedom’ Movement.
Sarvenaz Ahmadi is an Iranian translator in the field of women and a social worker in the field of children. She was arrested during the Woman Life Freedom movement. She was detained for a month and...
The Russian imperial politics have throughout history limited the Kalmyk culture, from the early oral epos “Dzjangar” to contemporary poetry. In this lyrical essay by Dordzhi Dzhaldzhireev, it’s clear...
In this text by Svetlana Edygarova we are presented with an aspect of losing a language that is rarely brought up: that language is connected to emotion, and emotions to the body. What concequences...
Where does being in the middle take place? Perhaps between novruz and christmas, different geographical places, between two languages where one of them brings literature but first after cutting up the...
The Tatar language is unintentionally left in the childhood kitchen for many years. We get to follow the language from childhood with əbika, to school and university where it’s ignored, and to Berlin...
Aslı Ceren Aslan was born in Istanbul in 1990 and graduated from Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Department of Mathematics in 2014. Between 2014 and 2021, Aslan worked in various positions as a...
Agra Lieģe Doležko is a publicist, journalist and an activist, who focuses on the topics of motherhood (both as an institution and her private experience), gender equality, sexual violence, and women...