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Activism of everyday life on an island
Voices Across Waters is a living chain of conversations among ecofeminist activists from across the Mediterranean: Svetlana Balovska Đurković, Mariona Bonsfills Clotet, Noe Diaferia, Asmaa Elmalky, Simona Getova, Jasmina Husanović, Lena Penšek, Roula Seghaier, and Shereen Talaat. Through intimate and courageous dialogue, the series amplifies voices, stories, and political imagination rooted in care, solidarity, resistance, and transformation.
Across borders and struggles, each episode explores how ecofeminism challenges patriarchal, colonial, capitalist and extractivist systems while nurturing collective alternatives grounded in justice, dignity and ecological balance.
These are not just interviews. They are acts of alliance building towards collective liberation. They are conversations between commerades, between friends. They are hope.
In this intimate and reflective conversation, Jasmina speaks with Svetlana about ecofeminism as a lived, daily practice rooted in care, resilience, and intergenerational responsibility.
From feminist awakening in childhood to LGBTQI+ activism and motherhood, Svetlana –reflects on how raising a daughter deepened her ecological consciousness. Now living on a Mediterranean island, she shares how ecofeminism manifests through community education, soil regeneration, rainwater collection, composting, and protecting the sea from plastic pollution.
Together, they explore trust within activist spaces, the importance of preventing burnout, and why joy and love are not luxuries but necessary political forces. This episode reminds us that transformation begins close to the ground, in the air we breathe and the water we protect.
Svetlana Balovska Đurković (interviewee) is an anthropologist and ecofeminist queer activist from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the United States. Currently based in Croatia, she is a pioneer of the LGBTIQ+ movement in Bosnia and Herzegovina, now dedicating her efforts to environmental justice.
Jasmina Husanović (interviewer) is an activist, a scholar and a professor from Bosnia and Herzegovina and a founder of the EKOFEM BiH platform, working on the politics of the commons and emancipatory social transformation.
This podcast series is part of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean initiative and was developed as a chain-interview format designed to create relational dialogue across territories, experiences, and struggles.
An initiative by Research & Degrowth International: Research & Degrowth is an academic association dedicated to advancing research, training, and collective reflection on degrowth, ecological justice, and post-growth transformations. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, it supports critical thinking and collective action toward socially just and ecologically viable futures. Project coordination and leadership by Lena Penšek, activist and communicator of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean project, with visual identity and artwork by Alexandra Mestre Garcia. Find out more at https://degrowth.org/
Design and production by Efecto Colibrí: Efecto Colibrí helps create narratives that advance a just, diverse, and regenerative reality. It drives systemic change by transforming the stories that quietly shape our worlds. Through narrative research, co-design of systemic-change narratives, and story activation, Efecto Colibrí builds understanding, moves conversations forward, and equips teams to create change through narrative clarity in times of noise and polarization. Creative design by Ana Amrein, founder of Efecto Colibrí, together with Gonzalo Díaz, architect and editor. Find out more at: https://efectocolibri.com/en/
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