"It Felt like Strike Was in the Air at the Beginning of the Invasion." A Conversation with Sasha Talaver (Feminist Antiwar Resistance)

Authors

  • Ksenia Robbe University of Groningen
  • Sasha Talaver Central European University, Vienna

Keywords:

Femininst Antiwar Resistance, Labour day, labour rights, mothers against war, International Women's Day, Russia's war against Ukraine, reproductive labour

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Author Biographies

Ksenia Robbe, University of Groningen

Ksenia Robbe’s research engages with postcolonial and postsocialist transitions and develops critical perspectives on these processes through the studies of memory, time, and feminist practices in East European and Southern African literature, film and visual art. She is a Senior lecturer at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

Sasha Talaver, Central European University, Vienna

Alexandra (Sasha) Talaver is a Ph.D. candidate in Gender Studies at the Central European University, Vienna. She explores the opportunities, limitations, and tactics of women members of the Soviet Women’s Committee in advocating for reproductive justice. She is co-editor of the book Feminist Samizdat: 40 Years After (Moscow: Commonplace, 2020). Aside from her academic work, Sasha is involved in feminist activism and is one of the coordinators of the Feminist Anti-War Resistance, which was founded in Russia on the day after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

References

Arruzza, Cinzia, Tithi Bhattacharya, and Nancy Fraser. 2019. Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto. London: Verso.

Crowley, Stephen. 2021. Putin’s Labour Dilemma: Russian Politics between Stability and Stagnation. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Sheill, Kate. 2019. A Dangerous Unselfishness: Learning from Strike Actions. Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development.

Cover image shows an illustration of bright blue figures holding hands while walking up a hill. The figure in front is holding a red flag with the symbol for "woman" on it (circle with cross beneath). The background behind the figures is bright yellow.

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Published

2023-12-20

Issue

Vol. 44 No. 2 (2023): Formations of Feminist Strike

Section

Interviews

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