Intersectionality and LGBT Activist Politics Multiple Others in Croa
This volume combines empirically oriented and theoretically grounded reflections upon various forms of LGBT activist engagement to examine how the notion of intersectionality enters the political context of contemporary Serbia and Croatia. By uncovering e
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Edited by Bojan Bilić and Sanja Kajinić
Intersectionality and LGBT Activist Politics
Bojan Bilić • Sanja Kajinić Editors
Intersectionality and LGBT Activist Politics Multiple Others in Croatia and Serbia
Editors Bojan Bilić University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sanja Kajinić University of Bologna, Forlì Campus, Forlì, Italy
ISBN 978-1-137-59030-5 ISBN 978-1-137-59031-2 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-59031-2
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Foreword: Searching for Our Lesbian Nests in Yugoslavia and After
In the 70s and 80s of the past century, some of us in the feminist movement started dropping out of heteropatriarchy. One by one, and then in gangs. We began realising that we were on the point zero of the long process of inventing together what our being lesbians was. It was like that in many places in the world, but also with me. My own transformations were framed by two completely different decades: the socialist 1980s and the nationalist 1990s, in Belgrade—a city which was a capital in two different states: in the 1980s in the socialist state of Yugoslavia and in the 1990s in the nationalist Serbia. To give you an idea of the social traps in which women loving women found themselves in those two periods, I will tell a few life stories and try to describe how the historic and political context reflected my desire. We, feminists, have not been saying in vain the famous slogan “the personal is political”—we insist on its truth also because we, lesbians, feel both misogyny and lesbophobia on a daily basis. Our lesbian lo
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