Finally, our last question aimed at the level of spatiality: Do feminists, and in what way, see themselves as part of the feminist movements in Serbia and beyond? Many activists who are engaged with local and regional networks do not question this kind of connection between themselves and movements both within and beyond borders, emphasizing that crossing the borders is something inherent and internal to feminism, while networking is part of the processes of empowerment. However, this question has lead to the conclusion that it is necessary to make “peripheries of the movement” more visible and to provide a space where their authenticities can be adequately expressed. The internal critique/destabilization/pluralization of priorities which women have to adopt as the starting point in today’s movement and not as an end, is one of the questions that are usually asked by feminist theorists and artists without challenging the necessity that we should think about the movement under global and sometimes even utopian terms. “In any case, to be part of the movement that goes beyond the Serbian borders represents the test of me as a feminist and feminism itself as well”.           

Adriana Zaharijević and Katarina Lončarević

Women’s Studies Center

Belgrade

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* We would like to thank feminists who participated in our research for this paper: Jovana Dimitrijević, Marija Petronijević, Aneta Bajović Ilić, Iva Nenić, Tanja Marković, Jelena Memet, Maja Solar, Ksenija Forca, Marijana Stojčić, Slavoljupka Pavlović, Ana Vilenica, Brankica Paunović, Aleksandra Žikić, Marija Perković, Jovana Vučković, Aleksandra Nestorov, Jelena Miletić, and ZŠ.