Afterthoughts

The first "Feminists arrive at three" is over and we want to thank all participants, helpers, partners, visitors who helped an idea, a dream that sprung up a couple of years ago in hot Madrid, to become true in snowy, white Tallinn. We spent five unforgettable days with intelligent, creative, talented, special people with whom we discussed different forms of violence against women. We listened, we talked, learned, explored and we found that there is still so much to be done in Estonia: starting with the meanings of the words, definitions and the understanding of the whole phenomena as far as to the demand of the specific law. We enjoyed inspiring video and film art, we were marvelled by a gorgeous burlesque performance, we danced in März and we realized how important is an existence of such an event, our own room, our environment. Time and place where we can talk, share, listen, participate, be present, be together, and through all of this increase awareness of all the wide range of issues related to feminism.
Dagmar Kase summed it up in her feminar's talk with the following words: "In 12 years, there has not been many changes in Estonia - "'feminism / feminist" and "women's liberation / women's liberation' activist' as meanings are even more distanced from each other and negative shades of these meanings are not lost. Thus, the past is not gone, it is still here with us. How to change the meanings more positive? Solving the issue is mostly related to our own attitude towards the meanings and behaviour, and depends heavily on the actions we take.
One way is to bring together people, without shame and fear, under "feminists arrive at three", which among other things proves the existence of feminists and their arrival, and no less important is the fact that feminists do not arrive in the dark, and they do not leave."
So the feminists arrived at three but they do not go away at five. See you again in November 2011!

In estonian: Järelmõtted
Anna-Maria Penu