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In this issue we want to focus on cultural and historical differences regarding the importance of hair. Some women struggle with it due to historic oppression or disregard.
ABOUT US
Shetopia is a project by and for young people who want to fight for gender equality. Since the start of the project in 2019, the enthusiasm of the beginning quickly developed into a highly motivated and active international group of young women.
By being critical, anti-racist, inclusive, and social, we dream of a gender-equal future without any form of gender-specific and intersectional discrimination. We want to achieve that through raising awareness, spreading information, and education.
OUR HISTORY
Shetopia was founded in August 2019 at the Youth Activist Camp of the Young Utopians.
In this context, a group of 5 very different young women from Romania, Columbia, Ecuador and Germany got to know each other and decided to do something together to fight against gender inequality. The idea was to educate others about all the inequalities that affect women all over the world and doing that always with an intersectional perspective.
Since then, Shetopia has been part of the Young Utopians e.V. as a project. We are autonomous and can concentrate primarily on our work, but we are always in a lively exchange and receive active support and advice from the Young Utopians.
OUR TEAM
Only shortly after Shetopia was founded, the group started to grow and many more young women joined in. In February 2020 our team members of that time introduced themselves in a newsletter issue. Since then our team structure has changed again, some of our former team members had to focus more on work and university, while we also gained new Shetopians.
Currently the core team persists of nine women: Alex, Daria, Gabi, Franzi, Freya, Lotti, Luise, Nele und Paula. Most of us know each other through university, other projects or just Shetopia. While six of us are based in Berlin, the others are spread out across Germany or Europe. We all come from different cities and even sometimes different countries.
Additionally to our core team, we have two incredible women supporting us in our newsletter as “country specific contributors”: Senan Kanana from Kenya and Hira Zeinab from Pakistan.
But of course Shetopia is a network and therefore consists of many more people: all of the former core team members, all of those women and queer people that wrote or contributed something to the newsletter, all the guests from our podcast, the participants of the workshop and support circles and many more.
Thank you for supporting us and helping us in smashing the patriarchy every day a little more!
WE WANT TO CREATE AN INTERNATIONAL AND INTERCULTURAL NETWORK THROUGH EDUCATIONAL WORK AND CROSS-BORDER EXCHANGE BETWEEN WOMEN. INCLUSIVE FEMINISM IS CRITICAL IN OUR WORK:
“FEMINISM WITHOUT BORDERS.”
OUR VISION
We are critical, anti-racist, inclusive and social, we are dreaming of an equal future without any form of gender-specific and intersectional discrimination. We want to achieve this through raising awareness, information and education. Through our activism we want to address global gender inequalities and shift the feminist discourse from the university to everyday life in order to bring about a change in our behavior and thus also in society as a whole. We think that knowing and being sensitive to existing inequalities and discriminating structures is the first important step in removing them. In all aspects we value an international and intersectional approach, since in the process of learning about, acknowledging and fighting against discriminative structures also upholds learning about the different experiences we have based on who we are, our background and what position we have in society.
SUPPORTED BY
We are an autonomous project of the Young Utopians e.v.
Our project was supported in 2021 by Dein Ding and Mission Inklusion, the shared project of the Servicestelle Jugendbeteiligiung and the Aktion Mensch.
Mission Inklusion and Dein Ding support the campaign of Aktion Mensch for an inclusive engagement.
