Tanja Bjelanović: Each act of giving is valuable

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Tanja Bjelanović, is an activist who work in the field of philanthropy and sustainable development for the last two decades. She lives what she believes in, so besides her professional enrollment she is an individual donor to many development organizations and many feminist causes. Her publication „Towards financial sustainability of civil sector organizations in Serbia“ explains new ideas and models of financing in the civil sector.

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Focus on Focus: Jelena Jaćimović Jaćim i Aleksandra Mališić -“Hey, We Corrected This For You!“

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Exhibition “Hey, we corrected this for you!” is focused on raising awareness about the problem of secondary victimization of women survivors of sexual violence. It was exhibited in Sava pathway in Kalemegdan in March 2022, and supported through the Special Focus program. During the hype of public discourse of violence against women, as well as its inadequate answer and discussion on the topic, one of the most successful campaigns remains the initiative #nisamprijavila. The exhibition by two feminist activists, Jelena Jaćimović i Aleksandra Mališić, continues this story by giving the answer to the question „why didn’t she report it?

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Regional feminist convening at Vrdnik

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A group photo of participants in the conference room
A group photo of participants in the conference room
Photo: Artpolis

For resting, for caring for yourself and your collective, and then for your communities, for all the diverse practices falling under the umbrella of this discipline, we first need to become free of the clamps of the economic instability and enable access to all the labor and social rights. It is necessary to pave the way towards care with adequate socio-political and economic principles rooted in dignified labor and social support, taking up feminist approach. Without that, practicing individual and collective care remains deprived of the essential condition for regular and continuous resting and burnout prevention, both within the movement and at the wider social level.

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Nataša Kovačević: Patriarchy as a painful spot

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Nataša Kovačević was born in former Yugoslavia, she graduated in English Department at the University of Belgrade and got her PhD at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Currently, she is a professor of English language and literatures at the Eastern Michigan University and editor of literary journal JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory.

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Hleb Theatre – Stage play “Marija Ručara”

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Sanja Krsmanović Tasić in "Marija Ručara" play
Sanja Krsmanović Tasić in “Marija Ručara” play

Towards the end of 2021, stage play Marija Ručara premiered at Cultural Centre Magacin, performed by Hleb Theatre. It emerged from the poem of the same name, once being forbidden and destroyed, written by Aleksandar Vučo and Dušan Matić. Through our program of Special Focus, it was our pleasure to support the development of this stage play, making connections between the position of women workers in 1930s and today, orbiting around the basic human needs of which people are deprived by the capitalist cruelness in diverse manifestations. On this occasion, we talked to Sanja Krsmanović Tasić from Hleb Theatre, who staged this play and performs in it. 

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Jelena Todorović: Solidarity as a revolutionary philosophy of life

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Jelena Todorović, born in Leskovac, graduated in the Italian Department at the University of Belgrade and got her PhD at the Indiana University Bloomington. She is the first in her family to attend college, and she is using her experience to support first-generation students at her University and help them navigate all spheres of university life, to identify resources at the university, and use efficiently the advantages university offers.

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RWF wishes all the strength necessary in 2022!

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We are waiting the year 2022 wishing that all of us together will have that sort of strength that we need! The strength for struggles, the strenght for health, the strenght for difficult moments, the strenth for joyfulness…

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Feminist philanthropy in Serbia: A view from the in-between

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Recently we had the pleasure of taking part in the publication called Feminist Philanthropy: Stories of Resilience with the stories collected by Women’s Fund Armenia. We are glad to share the text from the publication written by Đurđa Trajković, RWF’s coordinator, and Galina Maksimović, RWF’s program and community coordinator, in which they reflect upon the local context of resourcing feminist movement and the foundations of Reconstruction’s working principles. 

Get familiar with diverse feminist contexts by reading the full publication, available in English, right here!

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Focus on focus: Self-educational university “Svetozar Marković” – A cycle of educational programs “Women workers, activists, theoreticians”

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The promotion of the “Little self-educational reading book No. 6” in the city of Kragujevac.

In 2021, we have supported the work of Self-educational university “Svetozar Marković” through a series of encounters devoted to women workers, activists and theoreticians working in the late 19th century and early 20th century, as well as the translations of their texts published in “Little self-educational reading book No. 6”. On this occasion, we are talking to Irena Ristić and Saša Perić about self-education, as well as about the significance of the translated authors today. 

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