Regional Lesbian Forum “Sisters Outsiders“

The Regional Lesbian Forum provides a platform which serves to connect the experiences and practices on regional level, which by referring to the the past and considering the current social and political context will contribute towards the creation of joint values and building strategies and plans for acting on a national, as well as regional level (Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia). The 4-day Forum that is structured around  three key pillars as follows: 

a) contextualization, consisting of three panels, starting from the historical differences and lines of continuity in the lesbian activism in the region, through cultural activism and art as platform for lesbian politics of resistance and criticism to the final panel focused on building alliances between the lesbian movement, criticism of nationalism and the class conflict; 

b) working together based on shared contexts, ideas and visions in order to establish joint values for action as part of the Lesbian Manifest; and

c) safe space for workshops and storytelling that raise the issue of coming out and lesbian relationships, as well as the issue of violence against women. 

The Forum also creates space for lesbian art and culture by including the video lecture Heavy images – Proposals for working with visual memory through queerness, promotion of the book A Decent Life that contains 23 lesbian short stories and screening of the movie: Relations: 25Years od the lesbian group SKUC-LL. 

As joint activity with other women’s and feminist organizations, the Forum also includes the Reclaim the Night March and the workshop for preparing slogans and banners for the March. The Forum also includes slam poetry and a party.