Catania While the Organizers’ Forum was in Bucharest and Sofia, everyone talked about politics, but it was hard to get our arms around all of what we were hearing, despite in a rarity for our dialogues we had meetings with three journalists with experience in radio, print, and television, including in the public-state controlled …
Category: Organizers Forum
Labor, Care, and More in Bulgaria
Catania One of our last meetings was with Kalina Drenska, one of the LevFem collective. Like so many activists in Romania and Bulgaria, and, truth to tell, everywhere it seems these days when there is so little investment in building progressive capacity, Kalina wears multiple hats. In her “day job,” so to speak she …
Backlash for Women and LGBTQ in Bulgaria
Sofia As a woman in one of our meetings in Sofia told us, you could describe the feminist and LGBTQ movements in Bulgaria as before and after 2018. In that year the EU issued a convention that ostensibly was meant to protect marginal groups in all member countries, but in Bulgaria the convention triggered a …