25. Dezember 2020 23:14
Who’s on trial here?
In the past two weeks, the regional activist scene in the Balkans just couldn’t contain its obsession with the appointment of the new director of the Center for Women’s Studies in Zagreb, Dorotea Šušak. From the very moment she was appointed to that position, she has been a subject of numerous announcements, accusations, endless comments, rumors, he-said-she-saids, all ending in waves of sexist abuse and calls for resignation. Having in mind that this kind of appointment never gets this amount of attention, but also having followed the “TRA-TERF” debate (which is, in the local context, a knock-off copy of the debate on the Western feminist and leftist scene), one has to realize that all this has little to do with Dorotea Šušak herself, and with the Center for Women’s Studies only to some extent.