Elife Krasniqi

Elife (Eli) Krasniqi, is an anthropologist and fiction writer. She researched changes and continuities in the Albanian family and patriarchal system from the mid-20th  to the beginning of the 21st century in Kosovo. Her current research delves into the Black African presence in the Balkans, tracing the lineage of Ottoman domestic slavery. She particularly focuses on issues of race and class, aiming at exploring the everyday life of Black African people and their descendants since the late 19th century in the Balkans.

Adriana Zaharijević

Adriana Zaharijević is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade. Her work combines political philosophy, feminist theory and social history. She is the author of four monographs (in Serbian) Becoming a Woman [2010], Who Is an Individual? [2014, 2019], Life of Bodies [2020], and Judith Butler and Politics (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Her texts have been translated into Albanian, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, and Ukrainian, and she has actively translated feminist theory and philosophy into Serbian for two decades. She regularly writes short pieces for a wider public, in which she tackles social inequalities, antinationalism and antimilitarism. Adriana is the 2022 Emma Goldman Snowball awardee.

Nita Luci

Nita Luci holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor. Her research has focused on topics of gender and manhood, state, post-socialism, nationalism, contemporary art, military intervention, memory and violence. She teaches in the departments of Anthropology, Sociology, and Contemporary Art and heads the University Program for Gender Studies and Research at the University of Prishtina. In addition to her university engagements she also serves on the boards of a number of civil-society organizations in Kosovo focusing on gender, LGBT, gender based-violence, research and activism. She also co-founded the independent feminist organization Alter Habitus – Institute for Studies in Society and Culture, which has focused on gender perspectives to post-war collective memory in Kosovo.

Madina Tlostanova

Madina Tlostanova is a feminist thinker and fiction writer, professor of postcolonial feminisms at Linköping University, Sweden. Her research interests include decolonial thought, feminisms of the Global South, postsocialist human condition, fiction and art, critical future inquiries and critical interventions into complexity, crisis, and change. Her most recent book is an experimental monograph, Narratives of Unsettlement. Being Out-of-joint as a Generative Human Condition (Routledge, 2023).