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A Queer History of Communism: Navigating Sexuality and Gender in Czechoslovakia, 1945–1989

Analytic Review
Alexandria Wilson-McDonald
December 2022
Věra Sokolová's book Queer Encounters with Communist Power: Non-heterosexual Lives and the State in Czechoslovakia, 1948–1989 provides a welcomed and compelling historical contribution through an examination of the experiences of queer and non-heterosexual people's lives under state-socialism in Czechoslovakia. Sokolová explores how queer and non-heterosexual people navigated their identities historically in Czechoslovakia and the role of sexologists in defining concepts of identity and supporting queer and non-heterosexual people under state socialism. This work is crucial today in resisting the claims made by far-right and anti-gender actors that LGBT politics and "gender" is a "Western" import without a local history and struggle.
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«Жизнь женщины» – очень размытое понятие

Analytic Review
Мариам Агамян
April 2021
«Пьеса в шести отвратительных сценах» Ольги Романовой носит полудокументальный характер и была написана несколько лет назад на злобу дня, против антиабортного движения в Беларуси. Повторная актуализация пьесы случилась в 2020 году после фальсификации выборов президента, когда масштабным жестом несогласия с жестокостью со стороны власти стали женские марши и квир колонны на протестах в Беларуси. Итак, о чем пьеса?
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«Troubling Education», Activism, and Academia: Notes on the Margins of the Useful Book

Analytic Review
Olga Plakhotnik
April 2017
The book "Troubling Education: Queer Activism and Antioppressive Pedagogy" (New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2002) by Kevin Kumashiro belongs to the classic publications in anti-oppressive education. A queer activism is conceived there as a broad spectrum of anti-normative strategies, including LGBT +, feminist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist politics and so on. Antioppressive pedagogies are aimed at forming socially sensitive people, which are able to see multilayered oppressions in the society and to resist, to fight against injustice. (The full text is available in Ukrainian.)