“The PiS government has pushed the country in a very conservative direction. In 2016 they wanted to completely outlaw abortion. Thankfully this created a huge mass demonstration, I have never seen such a powerful feminist initiative in Poland in my life. Black Protest it was called and 80.000 people went to the streets protesting, all dressed in black. It was amazing. I remember seeing women dressed in black everywhere on the streets and in the metro on my way to the protest that day… Today you can only have an abortion if you were raped, if the woman’s life or health is in serious danger or if the fetus is irreparably damaged. And the PiS government even call this law a compromise!” We spent the day with Zuzanna who told us about the current situation in Poland. It seems like crucial times here.
We have an amazing line up of meetings and events to go to here in Warsaw and we can’t wait to share the best parts with you.

“The older generation in Estonia call my generation snowflakes. We are moving from place to place and change jobs, we talk about our feelings and the difficult things in our lives. The older generation think that makes us light and blowing in the wind, that it makes us fragile. I see it all as our strength” We just had a great conversation with Mariel about generational differences and Soviet mentality.