Women’s fund in Georgia (WFG) sees healing and care as integral values and principles for feminist movement building. This module is a result of the authors’ experience, as well as collective reflections and work carried out during the Healer’s Retreat taking place in winter 2021.
Authors: TAMTA MELASHVILI; SALOME CHAGELISHVILI; NATIA GVIANISHVILI; NINO KHARCHILAVA; MARIAM GAGOSHASHVILI; IRA SILANTEVA
Nowadays most feminists agree that the environmental destruction affects oppressed groups differently - brings more destruction and makes the struggle for justice harder.
Menstruation-related stigma and its various discriminatory and harmful practices are one of the major challenges to gender equality that, in its many manifestations, characterize all societies in the modern world. All of this causes serious harm to menstruating people, especially girls in puberty.
Antifeminism, as a political phenomenon, is reactionary and is often used as a tool for right-wing radicalization. Antifeminism is often associated with anti-queer sentiments since the main goal of feminist and queer activism is to eliminate the patriarchal social order and the social inequality it causes.