{"id":1356,"date":"2011-04-20T15:28:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T13:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rwfund.org\/eng\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2015-02-07T15:33:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T13:33:22","slug":"feminist-rights-and-lesbian-freedoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rwfund.org\/eng\/2011\/04\/20\/feminist-rights-and-lesbian-freedoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Feminist Rights and Lesbian Freedoms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reconstruction Women\u2019s Fund<\/strong>, Belgrade Women\u2019s Studies Center<\/strong> and Cultural Center REX<\/strong> invite you to public discussion<\/p>\n

FEMINIST RIGHTS AND LESBIAN FREEDOMS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joan Nestle<\/strong> and Dianne Otto<\/strong>: On lesbian movement\u2019s history, lesbian solidarity among diversities, feminist desire for freedom<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cultural Center REX, Belgrade, Jevrejska 16,\u00a0<\/strong>April 25, 2011 at 6 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"FPLS\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Moderators: Adriana Zaharijevi\u0107<\/strong> and Lepa Mla\u0111enovi\u0107<\/strong><\/p>\n

Translators: Nina \u0110ur\u0111evi\u0107 Filipovi\u0107<\/strong> and Danijela \u017divkovi\u0107<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joan Nestle<\/strong>, legendary lesbian, femme writer is the founder of the first Lesbian Herstory Archives in New York that began as a lesbian support group in 1974 in the apartment that Joan Nestle shared with her then partner Deborah Edel. She is the author of a number of books about lesbian desire, love, butch and femme relationship and other political lesbian topics. Her more recent writing focuses on the issues related to older lesbians and lesbians who survived cancer. She lives in Melbourne, Australia with her partner Dianne Otto, where she is an activist of the organization Women in Black actively opposing Israeli and US regimes and the occupation of Palestine.<\/p>\n

www.joannestle.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Dianne Otto<\/strong> is a long time feminist professor of law at the University of Melbourne. She first joined the feminist activist movement at a Centre for Women Victims of Rape, on an SOS Hotline in Australia and later in a Socialist Feminist Collective.\u00a0\u00a0Dianne has been active in a number of human rights NGOs including Women\u2019s Rights Action Network Australia (WRANA), Women\u2019s Economic Equality Project (WEEP) Canada, International Women\u2019s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW-AP) Malaysia, and International Women\u2019s Tribune Centre (IWTC) New York.\u00a0She currently teaches feminist intervention in international law.<\/p>\n

www.joannestle.com\/diotto\/dilounge.html<\/a><\/p>\n