Lepa Mladjenovic
Lepa Mladjenovic – Proud lesbian – lesbian feminist activist, anti-war activist, feminist counselor for women with trauma of male violence, rape, war, lesbophoba. Co-founder of feminist activist groups in Belgrade: SOS Helpline for women survivors of male violence, 1990; Women in Black Against War, 1991; Autonomous Women’s Center Against Sexual Violence, 1993; Lesbian Human Rights Organisation – LABRIS, 1995; Counseling for Lesbians, 2012.
My Sessions
Lesbians and War
Iryna Lazorevych
Olena Hryhoryak
Olena Shevchenko
Lepa Mladjenovic
In this session, we hear from Ukrainian lesbians on the ground fleeing war as they share their experience of coordinating a shelter for LGBT community and the experience of working with the community in war conditions. We hear from organizers and volunteers as they take us through the challenges the face and they solutions they […]
Panel : Lesbian resistance in times of crisis : Ukraine
Dragana Todorovic
Olena Shevchenko
Sabine Arnolds
Lepa Mladjenovic
Oksana Kutynska
Ilyia Reena
Lesbians are at all times developing strategies to exist within societal norms and models that are in their nature oppressive and exclusionary of our communities. As lesbians and as feminists, in times of war – inherently patriarchal and unfeminist, we find ourselves trapped by borders and conflicts that are not ours. In this system dominated […]
History of Lesbian Movement in Europe
Lonneke van den Hoonaard
Lepa Mladjenovic
Katherine O’Donnell
Evien Tjabbes
Eva Isaksson
Summary of the plenary: «History of Lesbian Movement in Europe» By Katherine O’Donnell A key measure of oppression is how a group is denied access to thinking of themselves as part of history; as inheritors of tradition; as involved in making communities and cultures that will have an enduring legacy. Lesbians have been marked by […]
Overcoming patriarchal power control in our lesbian relationships
From the birth we are constructed by family order ruled by power and control system. Hatred against women and lesbians is imbedded in the social rules. When we start our first lesbian love story we miss knowledge that childhood systems of love and fear together with hatred toward lesbians will enter in our intimate relationship. […]