This speaker is talking about a festival they’ve been doing for 10 years. It was a DIY thing in a squat. It was a women’s festival. Culture and art for women. They wanted to increase visibility of their own work. Local women could meet and talk about feminism and stuff. It grew over time. This is in around Slovenia now.
The festival grew to include more of the balkans and then farther outwards.
IT’s now a feminist festival and not just a women festival to be less essentialist. There was a lot of resistance to this change. alas. The latest version is feminist and queer. I see this as a good thing.
Eventually participants were cool, but the media would just skip the word queer.
Theyve had themes around sex work. A documentary was made.
Last year they wanted to think about how to make it have a more lasting impact in the town. They decided to do a lot of workshops.
They did an action where they renamed the streets in responce to the revision of history going on in responce to the system change. They changed names to be names of women instead of men. They change “master” street to “servant” street. The city didn’t take down the changes for a while.
Queer festival action in slovenia
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