Faika El-Nagashi
Austria
Faika El-Nagashi is a long-time lesbian & feminist human rights advocate. She is a political scientist by vocation, political activist by passion and politician by profession. Her expertise is on women’s and human rights, (women’s) migration, development cooperation, integration and diversity politics, intersectionality and LGBTIQ rights. She has worked with European and transnational civil society networks such as TAMPEP (European Network for HIV/STI Prevention and Health Promotion among Migrant Sex Workers), CWGL (Center for Women’s Global Leadership), IGYLO and ILGA-Europe. She is currently a member of the Vienna City Council and the Vienna Provincial Parliament and the spokesperson for Integration and Human Rights of the Vienna Green Party.
My Sessions
Arts, Politics, Media, Research: activisms converging to build up a lesbian movement
Kseniya Kirichenko
Kika Fumero
Suzana Tratnik
Alice Coffin
Faika El-Nagashi
As we organise and shape our movement, we luckily have a lot of expertise and skills to draw from. Be it for the much-needed data collection on our lives and experiences, the unveiling of our realities, struggles and loves through art, or the carving of space in the political arena, and pushing of our voices […]
Who is afraid of the big bad dykes? Lesbians and the anti-gender movement
Olena Shevchenko
Bea Tilanus
Silvia Casalino
Mohira Suyarkulova
Kika Fumero
Faika El-Nagashi
Evgenia Giakoumopoulou
Dragana Todorovic
Anastasia Danilova
Public Round table “Anti-gender movements, nationalist and conservative attack on the rights of women and minorities: Ukrainian realities and international experience” During the round table we will talk about the challenges faced by LGBTQI and women’s movement in Ukraine, the conservative discourse, the nationalist and religious components in it. Why is gender equality in Ukraine […]
European Lesbian* Conference Welcome Reception
Phyll Opoku-Gyimah
Attilia Kiyoko Cernitori
Ulrike Lunacek
Malin Björk
Faika El-Nagashi
Angelika Silberbauer
Ewa Dziedzic
Garfias Camila
Introduction Lecture about & Concert with music of Ethel Smyth (1858-1944, lesbian composer and one of the first Suffragettes) Attilia Kiyoko Cernitori and Angelika Silberbauer (The University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna) In cooperation with the Department for Women Politics and Queer – Students Union at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna