When discussing the beginnings of the women’s movement in Slovenia the conversation generally opens with mentions of intellectuals, writers, or journalists. Alongside them there emerged another, equally vocal and equally passionate group of educated and financially independent women: teachers. In the late 19th century, as one can discover also in Ljubljana Feminist Tour, female teachers already...Continue Reading

If Goran Vojnović were a Serbian-Slovenian-Prekmurian feminist, I joked the first time I read this novel, it still wouldn’t have helped him. Because Ćrtice by Tina Perić, our former co-guide on the Ljubljana Feminist Tour, is such an astonishingly good book that it hurts. It is not “the next Southern Scum Go Home!”; it is...Continue Reading

One night several years ago, in Ljubljana’s then jazz-oriented Sax Pub (the heritage still apparent today through the building’s saxophone-related murals), I faced a dilemma. Should I order another beer? Or should I make a beeline home, since my boisterous friends have left me to my own devices in order to achieve their higher purpose?...Continue Reading

She is dressed in black, she is unmarried and childless, her poems and literature draw topics from Slovenian folk tales, and she is a behemothic lover of cats. For the mentioned reasons she is often referred to in general public as ‘the witch’. She is also outspoken, controversial, provocative, and rebellious. Certainly not something society...Continue Reading

Slovenia’s capital boasts a venue that the so called Prince of Darkness wanted for his musical residence. Truly, the Križanke Outdoor Theatre set up inside the courtyard of the former Monastery of the Holy Cross in Ljubljana’s city centre, impressed Nick Cave so much that many years ago he fell in love with it and...Continue Reading

On International Women’s Day, the team of the Urbana Vrana Institute is preparing its first tour dedicated to women in literature, entitled The Mystery of Women’s Literary Ljubljana. The title, of course, alludes to and references the well-known work by Zofka Kveder The Mystery of a Woman, making it clear that the tour does not...Continue Reading