The Covid-19 pandemic and the ongoing economic and political crises around the world make transnational interdependencies apparent, as well as the urgency of radical care and feminist solidarity. During summer 2020, diverse global struggles, including anti-authoritarian protests in Belarus, sparked conversations about forms of political dissent and solidarity. Please join us for the public discussion with scholars and activists working within the post-Soviet region and outside of it to explore solidarity politics in the context marked by the rise of right-wing conservatism and neoliberalism, of which authoritarianism is a part. This public discussion will situate the protests in Belarus within a transnational context in order to amplify how post-Soviet spaces can be a part of transnational feminist thinking and organizing. Looking at the protests in Belarus as a starting point for the conversation, the participants will discuss how diverse geographies can be in solidarity today, using their struggles and vulnerabilities as a ground for transnational alliances.
Participants:
Jennifer Suchland (Moderator) is an Associate Professor in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at Ohio State University.
Olia Sosnovskaya is an artist, organizer, and writer, based in Vienna and Minsk. She works with text, performative and visual practices. Currently a Ph.D. candidate at the PhD-in-Practice, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Сo-founder of the WORK HARD! PLAY HARD! platform (www.workhardplay.pw) and member of the artistic-research group Problem Collective. Website: http://oliasosnovskaya.com/
Georgy Mamedov is a curator, cultural and political writer, and activist with a day job of an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Arts at the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek.
Sujatha Subramanian (she/her/hers) is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University. Her doctoral research looks at how poor, oppressed caste girls negotiate India's juvenile detention institutions. Sujatha is also a collaborator with Detention Solidarity Network (https://detentionsolidarity.net/), an online space that critically engages with the structures and experiences of detention that constitute the carceral state in India.
Tatsiana Shchurko is a researcher and queer feminist activist from Belarus. Currently, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the Ohio State University.
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