{"id":21148,"date":"2026-04-20T13:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/?p=21148"},"modified":"2026-04-20T13:55:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:55:34","slug":"not-a-fairytale-but-at-the-krokodil-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/2026\/04\/not-a-fairytale-but-at-the-krokodil-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a Fairytale But\u2026 at the KROKODIL Center<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Tuesday, April 28 at 18:30h<\/strong>, at the KROKODIL Center (Kara\u0111or\u0111eva 43, Belgrade)<\/strong>, we continue the series of regional events that combine discussions, narration, and multimedia installations under the name Not a Fairytale But\u2026 Join us in narrating the third chapter, Not a Fairytale But\u2026 It Has Forest Fairies<\/strong>, which focuses on the pacifist engagement of women in Montenegro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Participating in the discussion during the first part of the event are the collaborators of the third chapter of Not a Fairytale But…<\/em>It Has Forest Fairies: Na\u0111a Bobi\u010di\u0107, author of the third chapter; Marijana Stoji\u010di\u0107, sociologist, researcher, feminist, and peace activist; and Adriana Zaharijevi\u0107, philosopher and expert in feminist theory, political philosophy, and social history. The discussion will be moderated by the project’s editor, Milena Beri\u0107. Attendees will also have the opportunity to view a conceptual representation of Lepa Mla\u0111enovi\u0107’<\/strong>s manifesto, The Politics of Women’s Solidarity<\/strong>, in the form of a spatial installation, as well as to read and\/or listen to the stories published so far from the three chapters of Not a Fairytale But\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cEvery one of us was aware that these were our neighbors and our relatives. It was right close by. Those people came to us both as relatives and friends, and as people who brought their products to sell here. So, a completely normal attitude was that there must be no shooting. That there must be no destruction […] We truly articulated a resistance to war, to killing. That was perhaps clearer to us than anything else,\u201d says Ervina Dabi\u017einovi\u0107 from the Center for Women’s and Peace Education “Anima” in Kotor, who was an active participant in the pacifist struggle in Montenegro during the 90s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About Not a Fairytale But\u2026:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through five monthly chapters, in various formats\u2014audio, video, text\u2014we bring true stories about the real heroines of the nineties: activists, peacemakers, feminists, and fighters who opposed war, nationalism, and political repression during the breakup of Yugoslavia. These are women who refused to be enemies to one another, regardless of which side they found themselves on, because they understood that sisterhood knows no nation and that love and care for others are the only cure for hatred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our intention is to map and analyze the legacy of the women\u2019s peace movement of the nineties, in which the struggle was not fought with a rifle in hand but on the streets, in cultural institutions, on SOS hotlines, and in shelters. Peace activism was a sure path to being accused of \u201cbetraying the nation,\u201d but also the direct successor to the women\u2019s anti-fascist struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Through storytelling, we explore how today\u2019s young activists and students adopt and reshape these practices in the fight against contemporary political repression: which tactics, symbols, and ethics of resistance they choose; how they connect a feminist approach to peace with labor, social, and other civil rights; and how they preserve memory and insist on justice today in Belgrade, Zagreb, and Sarajevo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This project is funded by the UK international development program and is implemented in partnership with the British Council.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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