Alisa Zhabenko
Alisa Zhabenko is PhD student at Gender Studies, Helsinki University, her research is on the lesbian motherhood in Russia. She currently is employed at the project “Contrasting and Re-Imagine Margins of Kinship” at the University of Helsinki. She was working with LGBT organization Comig-Out in Saint Petersburg, Russian LGBT Network, LGBT+ organization Seta in Finland.
My Sessions
Lesbians organizing in East Europe and Central Asia: case studies
Alisa Zhabenko
Zhanar Sekerbayeva
Dorottya Rédai
Agnes Granroth
During a workshop we will talk about situation with lesbians in countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, which usually remains invisible on the map of Europe. Here we will see how invisibility impacts on lives of women, who face double or even multiple discrimination. We will talk about lesbians, bisexual women and trans, who […]