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Women* Write the Balkans

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Čarna Brković@charnab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I am very grateful to Lea Horvat & Ana Sekulić for creating Women* write the Balkans as a platform for conversation and experimentation, as well as for their masterful editorial guidance and patience. I enjoyed writing this para-ethnographic story and might do more of that in the future

Women* Write the Balkans@womenwritebalkans.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Today, @charnab.bsky.social guides us through the lives and legacies of ostajnicas—a historical range of gender expressions that simultaneously reinforced and destabilized the heteronormative binary in the Balkan mountains. www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/third...

Alex Says Stuff@alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Loved this piece from @charnab.bsky.social and this last passage in particular really hit and resonated with me, it's the core dynamic of so much transmisogyny, not just in the Balkans but everywhere. The idea that being a woman is so obviously shit that anyone *choosing* to be one is an abomination

Next time I met her, I asked Mima what she meant by her comment. Trans men had sworn virgins as a tradition to turn to, she said. For many it did not work, but for some it did, like for Petar. There was no such interpretive device for trans women. No traditional practice, way of being, not even a ritual to turn to. “What person in their sane mind would want to be a woman?” she asked.
Women* Write the Balkans@womenwritebalkans.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Today, @charnab.bsky.social guides us through the lives and legacies of ostajnicas—a historical range of gender expressions that simultaneously reinforced and destabilized the heteronormative binary in the Balkan mountains. www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/third...

Women* Write the Balkans@womenwritebalkans.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Today, @charnab.bsky.social guides us through the lives and legacies of ostajnicas—a historical range of gender expressions that simultaneously reinforced and destabilized the heteronormative binary in the Balkan mountains. www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/third...

Third sex/third gender in Montenegro — Women* Write the Balkans

The mountainous Balkan communities included a place to articulate gender that both confirmed and overcame the heteronormative binary.

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Women* Write the Balkans@womenwritebalkans.bsky.social · 6mo ago

In the penultimate part of our Bodies of the Balkans special, Dragica Mikavica explores the wardrobes of three generations of women and the (dis)comfort of cloth(e)s. www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/milev...

Mileva's Singer Machine — Women* Write the Balkans

To those who were picking and packing, Singerica was a nuisance to steal. To me, as I sew up a small piece of my family’s past three decades later, it’s priceless.

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Women* Write the Balkans@womenwritebalkans.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Check out Growing Pains, a new essay in our Bodies of the Balkans winter special. Iva Jelušić explores parental expectations that eschewed words, living instead in bodies, gestures, and things. www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/growi...

Growing Pains — Women* Write the Balkans

In my more-or-less adulthood, I sometimes have coffee with my mum, often by the sea. We talk quite a bit now. To my surprise, I am not sure that words lead to a better understanding.

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Alex Says Stuff@alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 7mo ago

So I wrote something about ethnicity and gender, and the feeling of being "Other" in both. Thanks so much to @womenwritebalkans.bsky.social for publishing it, hope people find it an interesting read!

Women* Write the Balkans@womenwritebalkans.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The third essay of our winter special Bodies of the Balkans is now on the website! @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social writes about bodies—national and personal—and costs of classification. www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/on-cl...

Women* Write the Balkans@womenwritebalkans.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The third essay of our winter special Bodies of the Balkans is now on the website! @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social writes about bodies—national and personal—and costs of classification. www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/on-cl...

On Classification — Women* Write the Balkans

When rights in a society are determined by what group one is considered part of, aggressive attempts to police the boundaries of who “really counts” are almost inevitable. It is not enough to just be ...

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Women* Write the Balkans@womenwritebalkans.bsky.social · 7mo ago

In the second part of our winter special, Bodies of The Balkans, Magdalena Crăciun guides us through the river crossing between socialist Romania and Bulgaria, exploring the shadow economy and the delicious pleasures on the other side with a touch of life-changing suspense. tinyurl.com/3v24vamk

Across the River — Women* Write the Balkans

A small, cold weight lodged in the body. I have held it there, contained, neither mastered nor erased. It rises only rarely, most often when I cross a state border.

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Jana Häberlein@janahaeberlein.bsky.social · last yr.

🩷 We just talked about picking wild asparagus - which I've never done - last night!

Women* Write the Balkans@womenwritebalkans.bsky.social · last yr.

Not all Balkan blooms are soft and fragrant—some are green, spiky, and delicious. This week, Rebecca Duras takes us to Istria for a hands-on introduction to the art of wild asparagus picking and shows us what to do with it once we’re back in the kitchen.🌱 www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/a-few...

" I don’t know much about asparagus, just as I don’t know much about about mushroom foraging, butchering a pig, or driving away curses. I can’t know because my grandmother won’t teach me. She says I have what I learn in books and that is better because she only finished four years of school and this is a hard life and who would want the skills for a hard life. But I want to know." Rebecca Duras: A Few Things I Know About Asparagus (and A Few More That I Don't)