Movie projection of „Мutantes“ and a discussion on the topic of „Feminism, sexuality and resistance“

LezFem, Bori se zenski and the Coalition „Sexual and health rights of the marginalized communities“ invite you to a movie projection of Mutantes by Virginie Despentes, which is focused on the punk-porn feminist movement. As opposed to other feminist movements which see pornography as exploiting and humiliating, punk-porn feminism sees sex and pornography as tools of liberation, where women choose and control how they express themselves sexually, believing this is what embodies feminism. The movie covers topics such as the campaign for legalization of prostitution in the USA, feminist and S&M pornography, transgender erotics and queer activism.

The documentary contains around 20 interviews with artists, activists and theoreticians which were and are in the movement, as well as video inserts from performances and productions they have worked on.

After the movie projection, there will be a discussion on the topic of “Feminism, sexuality and resistance” with Katerina Kolozova and Slavcho Dimitrov.

We will be expecting you on Thursday, March 7th, at 17:30, in the LGBTI Support Centre.

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Katerina Kolozova is a director and senior researcher in the Institute of social sciences and humanities – Skopje, professor in philosophy and gender studies at the American College University of Skopje. Apart from working at her Institute, she is also visiting professor at several universities in the countries of former Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. She is author of “The Lived Revolution: Solidarity with the Body in Pain as the New Political Universal” (2010; in English), “The Real and ‘I’: On the Limit and the Self” (2006; in English), „Conversations with Judith Butler: Crisis of the subject“ with Judith Butler and Zarko Trajanoski, as well as editor of several books in the area of gender studies and feminist theory.

Slavcho Dimitrov graduated on the department of General and comparative literature at the “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” University and is MA in Gender studies and philosophy at the Euro Balkan Institute. At this time he is enrolled in doctor studies at the Department of Gender and Philosophy at the Euro Balkan Institute, where he works as a researcher, assistant and project coordinator. In the recent years he has coordinated several projects on human rights and non-discrimination of minority communities in Macedonia. He is also Director of the Coalition “Sexual and health rights of marginalized communities”. He has published several texts on topics from literary and film theory and interpretation, gender, sexuality and identity and modern art in Macedonia, in different publications from the area of academic work and art in the country and abroad. His main theoretical and author interests are related to questions on gender, cultural theory, political philosophy, identity and narrations, deconstruction of the subject and queer theory.