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Published in: 50.50Albanian rap and hyper-masculinityAlbanian rap songs are hugely popular in Albania, Kosova and Macedonia, shaping mainstream ideas of masculinity. But...
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Published in: 50.50For domestic abuse survivors, Kosovo’s justice system can be fatalProponents of family values preach respect for mothers, but expect those same mothers to simply endure abuse within...
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Published in: 50.50Sexual harassment in Kosovo: no longer invisible
A video of a woman walking in Prishtina being sexually harassed 50 times in 8 hours and publication of quantitative...
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Published in: 50.50Romani women of the Balkans: battling intersectional oppressionCenturies old oppression founded on gender, race, cultural group, and socio-economic class is being challenged by...
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Published in: 50.50Elona Kastrati: fame, feminism, and sanitary padsNineteen-year-old Elona Kastrati became internet-famous overnight, after she hung sanitary pads covered in feminist...
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Published in: 50.50Time for Kosovo's media to stand up for gender equalityFor a country of 1.7 million people, Kosovo has a large and vibrant media landscape. All too often, however, the...
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Published in: 50.50Mitrovica’s symbol: reconciliation amidst inevitability, history, and violence in KosovoMitrovica’s bridge as ‘symbol’ helps obscure the forces of elite manipulation and institutions of power in...
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Published in: 50.50Kosovo's 'real men'The Be a Man project by the Kosovan NGO Peer Educators Network uses workshops and art to provide young Kosovans with...
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Published in: 50.50What it means to be a woman and a survivor of war in KosovoSocial stigma, spotty enforcement of inheritance laws, and inconsistent government policies have all made things...
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Published in: 50.50Haveit: Kosovo’s conscience disguised in performance artHaveit, a Kosovan art collective consisting of four young women, use their performances to explore gender and social issues.
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Published in: 50.50Feminism is for all: exposing gendered limitations of the Albanian maleHegemonic masculinity enforces a half-reality, obscuring women’s perspectives. Yet the irony is that dismantling...
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Published in: 50.50Unidentified Serbian war criminals, and Albanian mass graves, exposed in new documentaryThe 2015 documentary The Unidentified addresses the unexposed massacres in the Peja area, and the still-unidentified...
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Published in: 50.50Re-telling stories: Alice Munro’s portraits of Albanian heartsThe Nobel Prize winner’s exploration, from afar, of Albanian women’s lives layers upon a history of female stories,...
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Published in: 50.50Gendered legacies of Communist Albania: a paradox of progressHoxha's regime used the language of ‘ending conservative traditions’ to justify many of its horrors, but today...
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Published in: 50.50Wartime rape is no longer kept under wraps in KosovoTwo recent milestones in Kosovo – an official monument recognising women’s suffering during the Kosovo War, and an...
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Published in: 50.50Women of Kosovo: a mirage of freedom and equalityA female President and political discourse that trades in 'gender equality' can't paper over the continued corrosive...
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Published in: 50.50Haki Stërmilli’s 'If I Were a Boy': the first Albanian feminist manifestoHaki Stërmilli 1936 novel If I Were a Boy portrays the contemporary problems of Albanian society that stem from a...
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Published in: 50.50Are photos of ‘badass protester girls’ really so badass?In the recent Macedonian protests, as elsewhere, female protesters are treated as iconic symbols rather than as...
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Published in: 50.50A window into women’s experiences in KosovoIsa Qosja’s latest film ‘Three Windows and a Hanging’ sensitively explores the taboo subject of the aftermath of war...
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