Feminism in Armenia

The political party of the revolution leader Nikol Pashinyan – the Civil Contract – was founded in 2015, and it did not even mention the rights of LGBTI in its founding documents and programmes. 

I woke up knowing that this time around there would be no way to reach the centre by car. 

What does feminist political labor look like in Armenia?  For the Armenian translation of the article, please, click here.

In this article, I take up this relationship in a quite different context – not that of the postcolonial, but of the postsocialist, and particularly in the postsocialist Republic of Armenia. 

The South Caucasus Regional Office of the Heinrich Boell Foundation announces an open call for short blog-posts from Armenia. Selected posts will be uploaded on www.feminism-boell.org under the section: “Who is not afraid of Feminism?”/Հայնրիխ Բյոլ հիմնադրամի Հարավային Կովկասի գրասենյակը Հայաստանում ընձեռում է բլոգային կարճ գրառումների հնարավորություն www.feminism-boell.org կայքում «Ո՞վ չի վախենում ֆեմինիզմից» սյունյակի ներքո: