Second-wave feminist concerns over violence to women led to intense disagreement over pornography. For some, sexually explicit content was inherently abusive. Others explored the potential of what became sex positivity. Vox Feminae charts the emergence of US lesbian BDSM magazines from the late 1970s.
Articles
Talk of demilitarization and mobilization divides opinion. Could giving women and other feminized groups more agency in wartime decision-making flip their traditionally passive role, providing relief from trauma and injustice?
Banning pride, erasing people
The politics of queer (in)visibility in Hungary
In Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, queerness isn’t just marginalized but transformed into a public enemy. Through legal restrictions, moral panics and media messaging, LGBTQ+ people have become the rhetorical stand-in for everything the government deems threatening.
From Bosnia to Afghanistan, the neoliberal peace-building model has compounded conflicts and inequalities by eroding the core function of states. But in Ukraine, the co-optation of the recovery process by private economic interests is being taken to a whole new level.
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An emotive rift exists between being drafted and signing up for military service. Those who prioritize family responsibilities, education and skills, and non-violence aren’t backing the opposition. Defence comes in many forms. Could lessons from Ukraine’s mobilization inform the recruitment challenges potentially facing the rest of Europe?
Debate around the cultural sector’s structural inequality often ignores issues of class. Yet behind the success of many practising artists lies an inheritance, allowance or other class privilege. Eight portraits of Belgian artists seek literary revenge, breaking into cultural capital’s invisible economy.
Four months into Trump’s second term and the president’s ICE raids on immigrants, triggering protests in Los Angeles now under troop surveillance, prove that ‘democracy is under assault’. Could a historic courtroom reprimand provide the necessary guidance for a moral reset?
“Come Together” is founded on the principles of partnership and peer-to-peer learning among individuals within community media organizations situated in six different countries. Instead of generating entirely new knowledge, the initiative aims to unearth and leverage the existing wisdom residing within these organizations to foster innovative approaches.
Eurozine review
Complexity
Wespennest 188 (2025)
In Wespennest: On the definition of hyper-complex systems; why keeping it simple is not always good political communication; how complexity became the hallmark of the musical avant-garde; and how new genres and platforms are making our interaction with literature more complex than ever.
Reflexive self-ethnography
springerin 1/2025
springerin looks back on 30 years of art and cultural criticism: including Boris Buden on the benevolent westernizer; Yvonne Volkart on altered artistic landscapes; Süreyyya Evren on spaces of conflict; and Hans-Christian Dany on illusions of subjectivity.
Foundry of Swedish feminism
Ord&Bild 1/2025
Ord&Bild revisits the Fogelstad Citizen School for Women and its role in the Swedish women’s movement. With articles on prominent alumni, including working-class feminist writer Moa Martinson; modernist artist and sculptor Siri Derkert; and pedagogue and civil rights campaigner Karin Stenberg.
Focal points
The European Parliament elections on 9 June are a referendum on EU policy since 2019. Will voters give Europe the green light for further progress, or pull the brakes? A new Eurozine series measures the political atmosphere in the EU and its neighbourhoods at this crucial moment.
Food and water systems under pressure: as the end of abundance becomes an everyday experience in Europe, we are thinking more closely about how our food reaches the table.
Post-revolutionary Ukrainian society displays a unique mix of hope, enthusiasm, social creativity, collective trauma of war, radicalism and disillusionment. With the Maidan becoming history, the focal point ‘Ukraine in European Dialogue’ explores the new challenges facing the young democracy, its place in Europe, and the lessons it might offer for the future of the European project.
Some observers, recalling the disasters of the 1920s and 30s, are suggesting that an anti-democratic counterrevolution on a global scale has begun. But is the writing really on the wall? Or does declinism prevent us from recognizing moments of democratic renewal?
Eurozine Network
Eurozine monitors upcoming funding opportunities on the international level relevant to cultural journalists, such as translation funds, mobility grants and project funding.