Find Your Sisters
One of the main goals of Subject To Power is to create an international platform for women (and some men) from different cultures to come on and report on what is happening in their corner of the world, so that the rest of us can learn from them, and maybe heed some warnings.
It's easy to think that what happens in our own little bubble is unique, unique to our government, unique to our laws, to the way men behave in our particular country, unique to our cultural customs. But the more you listen to women in places elsewhere, the clearer it becomes that so many of the methods and tactics used to control women - are the same across nations, and are very predictable.
In this episode Elle talks to young Hungarian feminist Krisztina Les, about what her advocacy and activism for women’s rights in Hungary looks like, and all of what we could learn from what has unfolded there in the last 20 years.
It has never been more crucial that we look beyond our own country’s borders to see what might be ahead for women in our own countries. How democracy, basic freedoms, women’s rights, equality and whole value systems can be dismantled in a very short amount of time. And that none of it is guaranteed.
EPISODE LINKS
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Social Worker & Advocate
Krisztina Les is a social worker with extensive experience working on the field of violence against women. She has supported survivors of domestic abuse through crisis intervention and case management and has worked with women’s rights organisations such as PATENT (People Against Patriarchy) and FiliA Hague Mothers on advocacy, awareness-raising, and training. She is committed to feminist practice and to advancing systemic change through collaboration and education.