Photo credits: Ardit Hoxha and Majlinda Hoxha Feminist activism has a long history of erasure and marginalization. The historical amnesia surrounding women’s movements renders any attempt of unearthing their genealogies and experiences an act of intervention in itself. Grounding women’s movements, however, calls for tackling the complexities and the historical context in which these movements emerged. Academic and artistic endeavours […]

For several years, Albanians faced continuous occupation and violation of the rights to work, freedom of language, gathering, music, and moving. However, this became worse under the oppressive policies of Milošević’s regime. In 1998, the situation went from bad to worse. The Serbian police and armed forces started massacring civilians, raping women, burning villages, and perpetrating other crimes in Kosovo. […]

What expulsion of Croatian citizens? In Vojvodina? Not a chance. This year on May 6 it will be 29 years since the speech given in Hrtkovci by Vojislav Šešelj, the president of the Serbian Radical Party. Almost three decades since adding fuel to the flames which were already engulfing the houses of our neighbors. The results of those actions of […]

"The concentration camp is imaginable only and exclusively as literature, never as reality. (Not even–or rather, least of all–when we have directly experienced it.)" Imre Kertész Photo: Vesna Lalić Certain policies have not been defeated, not even after the collapse of their primary ideologues and leaders, as it was in the case of Slobodan Milošević’s fall in Serbia. Those policies […]

There is no doubt that the one who exaggerates with Serbian national identity has a problem with their own identity, with who they are – wars are caused by those who are at war with themselves.  (Živojin Bata Kara-Pešić, Vreme, August 5 1991)   The war in Croatia was the first of the Yugoslav wars for territories. The forces under […]