On September 21 & 22, we invited femininities, queer and trans people who live, work, frequent or have other personal attachments to the neighbourhood of Exarchia, to join us in a counter-cartography workshop, to collectively map Exarchia it as we experience it, through a gendered perspective. What happens when you walk home at night? Do you ever feel unsafe? Who has your back? Those were the questions we had been posing at ourselves and through a questionnaire and two street actions and the ...| Inter Alia
Advocacy training & Femscapes exhibition in Zagreb, Croatia (22 – 23 June 2024) Our Femscapes exhibition (Athens, 7-10 March 2024) ended with a promise to meet again in Zagreb, to work together towards the current struggles that concern us; so it happened! In June, the diverse Super FEM team, with members from Greece, Romania, Croatia, Norway, Germany and North Macedonia, gathered in Zagreb for two days of training on advocacy and collective development of a transnational, pan-European camp...| Inter Alia
Consent is still a silenced topic, suppressed, among others, by institutions’ power of decision over women’s and other identities’ bodies and sexuality. In May 2024, EU institutions agreed on the first-ever law on combating violence against women. However, rape was not included, as national governments did not agee on a common definition of this crime as sex without consent. We are a group of activists and civil society organisations from Greece, Croatia, Norway, Romania, Germany, Ita...| Inter Alia
Who has your back? Through an online questionnaire and two street actions (Avdi square, 18/7 and Koletti street, 23/7) we asked the locals about their experiences during nightlife! What happens when you walk back home at night? Who are the people you (don’t) meet? What are the objects you (don’t) come across with? How do the spaces around you look? Which are the things you (don’t) think about, or the sounds you (don’t) hear? How fast do you walk? Do you think about how your body loo...| Inter Alia
We voted. But what now? Before election day, we were all convinced the far right would have swept up the control of the European Parliament from the hands of the pro-EU, traditional parties. Despite many national far right parties significantly raising their consensus among citizens, it is also true that the traditional parties, represented in the EP by the social-democrats (S&D), conservatives (EPP) and liberals (Renew), still managed to hold their position, although weakened. The centre-rig...| Inter Alia
What about the future? Projections: will the next European Parliament shift to the right? In the past months and years, the majority of EU Member States have lived through a shift to the right. The European discourse on topics like migration and minority rights has changed drastically, allowing anti-democratic and discriminatory positions to flourish. Given this transformation of public opinion, we should take a closer look at the polls for this June’s European elections, particularly to ex...| Inter Alia
