Interview

Interview

Dina Bajrektarević: On Conversion Practices

A. D.

The first study on conversion practices in Serbia shows that they are most often carried out within families, educational institutions, and informal communities, frequently under the guise of care, counseling, or assistance.

Dina Bajrektarević: On Conversion Practices

A. D.

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Miloš Lolić: There Will Be a Bitef, but a Guerrilla One

Ivan Medenica

If we find a suitable venue, this will almost certainly happen, and with that the vision my team and I have long hoped for will be fully realized—a free, libertarian Bitef.

Miloš Lolić: There Will Be a Bitef, but a Guerrilla One

Ivan Medenica

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Klara Vlasakova: The End of the World, the End of Imagination

Marina Vulićević

One of the many fine events prepared by the Czech Center in Belgrade was the visit of Klara Vlasakova, a young Czech writer, playwright, publicist, and author of film scripts, as well as radio plays and comics.

Klara Vlasakova: The End of the World, the End of Imagination

Marina Vulićević

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Roma Women Are Reduced to Street Activism

Ivana Perić

Romani women are not expected to engage in theory or academia. If you are Roma, you are marked for life as insufficiently educated and incompetent. The belief that education will solve all problems is a major misconception.

Roma Women Are Reduced to Street Activism

Ivana Perić

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Sara Ahmed: Killjoy as a Queer Project

Dušan Maljković

Sara Ahmed was a guest of Pride Weekend in June 2024 in Skopje. She is a philosopher, feminist, and activist of international renown whose work spans postcolonial and queer theory as well as race studies.

Sara Ahmed: Killjoy as a Queer Project

Dušan Maljković

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Dušan Maljković: Through Queer Theory to Social Change

Optimist Magazine

In this conversation, we not only reflect on the past seven years but also explore contemporary challenges in the LGBT sector, the role of queer theory in everyday life, and Dušan's personal philosophies.

Dušan Maljković: Through Queer Theory to Social Change

Optimist Magazine

Interview

Mariela Castro: On Cuba’s Family Code

Igor Maksimović

It makes me proud of the capacity and quality of the Cuban people to continue transforming in the revolutionary process, to keep contributing, questioning, suggesting, and deciding.

Mariela Castro: On Cuba’s Family Code

Igor Maksimović

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Karolina Bianchi: Theather's False Moralasing

Borka Golubović-Trebješanin

I see many performances where the trendy theme is more important than how it’s presented on stage, with a nervous obligation to please the audience.

Karolina Bianchi: Theather's False Moralasing

Borka Golubović-Trebješanin

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Tjaša Črnigoj: On The History of Sex Education

Borka Golubović-Trebješanin

One of the three lecture-performances, which form a special unit within the main program of the 58th Bitef, is "Sex Education II: The Fight" by the young Slovenian director Tjaša Črnigoj.

Tjaša Črnigoj: On The History of Sex Education

Borka Golubović-Trebješanin

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Sara Ahmed: Feel Everything, Including Killjoy Joy!

Manja Veličkovska

I do not think of sadness or misery as a duty or even as inevitable in the face of oppression. Still, I am just as resistant to making joy or happiness an aim or a duty– as if you have to justify being trans or queer by being happy.

Sara Ahmed: Feel Everything, Including Killjoy Joy!

Manja Veličkovska

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Jelena Zulević: On Being Non-Binary

Pero Jovović

We asked an expert to explain how the Eurovision winner is gender-neutral, and her answer dispelled all our prejudices.

Jelena Zulević: On Being Non-Binary

Pero Jovović

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Hans-Georg Moeller: Which Self? What Sex?

Dušan Maljković

I argue that gender has never been truly authentic and that we are currently undergoing a shift from gender roles to gender profiles.

Hans-Georg Moeller: Which Self? What Sex?

Dušan Maljković

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Michel Foucault: Being Good is Not Enough

Jelena Stakić

I tried to show not that sexuality was stifled, but how there emerged a stance much more complex than mere suppression; a stance of increasing curiosity towards sexuality.

Michel Foucault: Being Good is Not Enough

Jelena Stakić

Interview

Yue Yin: The Deeper the Roots, The More We Grow

Milan Vukelić

Contemporary dance expression is organically intertwined with movements characteristic of traditional Chinese dance, with the connecting thread being music inspired by Tibetan throat singing and Mongolian music.

Yue Yin: The Deeper the Roots, The More We Grow

Milan Vukelić

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Radim Vizváry: Let's Talk About Taboos

Dragan Jovićević

For example, in classical dramaturgy, if you want to create a comical situation in pantomime, you can do it through the love relationship between a man and a woman.

Radim Vizváry: Let's Talk About Taboos

Dragan Jovićević

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Jacques Alain Miller: On Love

Hanna Waar

Lacan said: "To love is to give what you don't have." What this means is that to love is to recognize one's own lack and give it to another, to place it in another.

Jacques Alain Miller: On Love

Hanna Waar