A former fellow of the GEST Programme, Masha Durkalić is a researcher, editor and one of the authors of the book #WomenOfBiH. She graduated in journalism from the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Sarajevo and started working as a journalist in 2008, focusing on women’s and LGBTQI rights. She obtained her MA degree within the European Regional Master in Democracy and Human Rights (ERMA) programme. She lives and works in Sarajevo where she works in communications and public relations and researches social movements focusing on feminist activism in southeast Europe.

To celebrate the coming publication of The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of the #MeToo movement, we speak to a series of activists from around the world about what the #MeToo movement looks like in different national contexts. On this episode we speak to Kinita Shenoy. She is a writer and communications specialist who has worked with the UN, the European Climate Foundation, and the World Bank Group. She has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Cosmopolitan Sri Lanka and Yamu, and her work has been published globally, including on Condé Nast Traveler and Harper's Bazaar. Her focus is on fostering equitable communities via campaigns and communications on gender and women's rights.

On this episode we speak to assistant professor Suhaila Mubariz Qaderi about the Kabul University bombings and how they tie in with gender roles in Afghanistan and the disciplining measures of a patriarchal society.

To celebrate the publication of the 'Routledge Handbook of the #MeToo Movement' we will spend the next 5 weeks speaking to activists from around the world about how the #MeToo movement takes shape in different contexts.

This week we speak to Bisharo Ali Hussein from Somalia. Bisharo is pursuing her Masters of Public Policy in Barcelona and MBA program in the UK. Bisharo is a humanitarian and a development and gender expert. She is an activist who is passionate about gender equality, peace and security, human rights and fights specifically for youths and women rights and sexual reproductive health rights

Pontus Järvstad is a local activist and PhD student in History at the University of Iceland. He is also one of the most knowledgeable people in Iceland on historical issues of communism and fascism. Today Giti and I interrogate this man's towering intellect aboiut gender issues in fascist and anti-fascist movements. And of course we can't interview a Swedish historian without talking about vikings.

Today we speak to Randi Stebbins from the University of Iceland Writing Center about our experiences with teaching in the GEST Programme and how to bring yourself and your identity into your writing.

What do we do when our favorite artists, authors and film makers get called out for problematic or even violent and abuse behavior? Today Giti and Thomas are joined by extreme film expert Nikkita Hamar Patterson, and together we attempt to provide a definitive answer to the question: Can you separate art from the artist?

This week Giti and Thomas discuss sexual harassment (hence the long faces)and the gendering of the female mentrual cycle. Good times.

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This week Giti and Thomas discuss the phenomenon of cultural appropriation, starting with the use of Sanskrit chanting in Battlestar Galactica. But when is something cultural appropriation? And what does it have to do with race, racism and gender?

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Continuing our series of discussions around our new online course 'Gender and Intersectionality, Giti and Thomas tackle issues around feminism, versus capitalism, the issue of doing 'perfect' activism, gender in the time of COVID19 and gender/class based disparities in academia.